Miss Agnes Locback, pictured here, accused a black man, Will Brown, of sexual assault. He was arrested, pulled from jail by a violent white mob, shot 100 times, burned, and his remains were hung for public display. http://www.nebraskastudies.org/0700/frameset_reset.html?
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| Here we are able to see women present as lynching observers, supporting the punishment along with the men they stand with. (http://www.salon.com/2000/08/31/lynching/) This article, publish by Ida B. Wells in The Memphis Free Speech, was her way of pointing out the amount of energy being spent against African Americans receiving justice. She expressed that that amount of energy should be spent to obtain it for them instead. (http://mshistory.k12.ms.us/images/521.gif) This article, published by the Clinton Mirror in 1911, tells of the lynching of Laura Nelson and her son. http://lauranelsonlynching.weebly.com/ Photo of Laura Nelson, lynched from a bridge, 1911. http://henriettavintondavis.wordpress.com/2008/08/01/black-women-who-were-lynched-in-america/ This article from the Cleveland Advocate on April 10, 1920, expresses the image of hero given to girls who have viewed a lynching. Was this seen as a sort of initiation for these girls into adult society? http://dbs.ohiohistory.org/africanam/page1.cfm?ItemID=9307 African American women protesting lynching outside the White House in 1954. http://www.corbisimages.com/stock-photo/rights-managed/BE047142/women-at-white-house-protest-lynching http://www.digitalhistory.uh.edu/learning_history/lynching/anti_lynching1.cfm NAACP Papers, Part 7: The Anti-Lynching Campaign, 1912-1955, Series B: Anti-Lynching Legislative and Publicity Files, 1916-1955, Library of Congress. This file discusses the number of female lynchings in the US, divided per state. It presents the story of many of these lynchings. This letter, written by Eleanor Roosevelt to Walter White on March 19, 1936, told of her efforts to have federal action taken against lynching. To retrieve this document visit http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/index.html and search 'lynching' in the top right corner. This cartoon, created by Reginald March in 1934, is titled 'This is her first lynching'. It shows how viewing and supporting this crime became a part of life for some children, girl or boy. Here we see a young girl exposed to the crime. http://www.eeweems.com/reginald_marsh/ This article was published in the Cleveland Advocate on May 8, 1920. It expresses the mentality whites held toward blacks in the case of sexual assault toward white females. http://dbs.ohiohistory.org/africanam/det.cfm?ID=9384 |
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