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Lynching during the 20th Century

Introduction

Lynching is to summarily execute a person, an accused, without regular trial and a collective decision, in afflicting the person to serious violence. The lynching of blacks in the United States began in 1865 with the emergence of the Ku Klux Klan, a racist group. Not satisfied with the decision of President Lincoln to abolish slavery in 1863, they decided to intervene.

Their actions were designed to frighten blacks. They were wearing white pointy hoods and were burning at night huge cross and waving torches at night ceremonies. These ceremonies were called punitive expeditions against blacks, the aim being to cause them great fear. However, this group of racists were often later they organized the lynching of blacks suspected of imaginary crimes. Supporters of the Klu Klux Klan raged mainly in the southern states of the United States: Texas, Louisiana, Alabama, Mississippi and Georgia. A few years later this racism and hatred towards the black community extended to the entire American community. The blacks were mostly accused of raping white women or murder, but generally it was enough of an argument, insult with a white or even a witness against a white man to be lynched. (White, pp.125-128)

The crowds wanted to take the law themselves and why they organized public lynching, not hesitating to go get the prisoner to his cell, often in the eye of the sheriff. J. Meyers of Chattanooga says himself: "it was the community in a black body, not necessarily that of the person who committed the crime. It cites the lynching of Ed Johnson, who a century later was acquitted of the crime with which he was charged.

The police were very involved in these cases of lynching, which is why the authors of these lynching were not considered, considered as strangers, as they posed next to their victims openly, to take photos. The mayors were even given a day off school to go to see a human being burned alive, along with Railways organized trips to watch the torture. These tortures were diverse: - Hangings (sometimes several at once) - The stake - les mutilations - Female - Lacerations

Those most affected by these lynching were black mesh aspiring to a life: they educate themselves, managed to acquire a field, a woman who became involved in politics and so on. This displeased the White, who believed that blacks were slaves and had to stay by their skin color and their origins. And contrary to what one might think of black women and children were also victims of Moirs lynching. There were in 1882 and 1927, 92 women lynched. (Royster, Pp.35-38)



Examples:

- In 1911, Laura Nelson was hanging from a bridge in Oklahoma with his 14 year old son, whom she had assumed the defense.

- Early Twentieth Century, a black man was hanged with her 3 children

And in 1933 a study showed that of 100 lynching of blacks, a third of the victims were innocent of ...