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Books by Walter White
The Fire in the Flint (novel,1924)
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Flight
(novel,1926) /
Rope
and Faggot: A Biography of Judge Lynch (1929)
How far the Promised Land?
955) /
A
Man Called White (autobiography,1948).
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Books on
Lynching & Racial Violence
The Chronological
History of the Negro in America (1969) /
Strain of
Violence: Historical Studies of American Violence and Vigilantism (1975)
But There Was
No Peace: The
Role of Violence in the Politics of Reconstruction
(1984) /
Lynch Law
( 1905) /
An American Dilemma
(1944)
The Crucible of Race:
Black-White Relations in the American South Since Emancipation
(1984) /
Encyclopedia of Southern Culture.
(1989)
Rope and Faggot
( 1929) /
The Tragedy of
Lynching (1933) /
Race Riot in East St,
Louis (1964) /
Urban Racial Violence
(1976)
/
Report of the National Advisory Commission on Civil Disorders
(1968) /
Violence
in America (1969) *
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Lynching Must Go!
An Editorial
The verdict of the Greenville, South Carolina
jury acquitting all twenty-eight white men accused of lynching
Willie Earle, a Negro, last February, eliminates the last
possible argument against the early enactment of the pending
Federal Anti-lynching Bill.
Southern opponents of the Federal
Anti-lynching laws have argued that the states could apprehend,
prosecute, and punish those implicated in local lynchings. Now,
after acquittal of twenty-eight who took part in the most recent
mob murder, this objection to an effective Federal law vanishes
into thin air. According to the newsmen who covered the recent
trail the charge was ably presented by the prosecutor and
complete fairness marked the attitude and rulings of the court.
Then, too, it caused local surprise that the alleged confessions
of the accused were admitted into evidence. However, after five
hours of deliberations, the local jury returned ninety-eight
verdicts of acquittal, freeing all twenty-eight who had been
implicated in the lynching.
Editorial comment reflecting the opinion of
the press, and openly expressed views of white and Negro leaders
from all parts of the country, indicate that state courts can
not be relied upon to convict those who are actually guilty of
lynching American Negroes. Age-old sectional attitudes which
have tolerated lynching-with-impunity have consistently defeated
successful prosecution of local lynchings. Adequate Federal laws
are required; Federal courts should be given jurisdiction and
Federal prosecutors the authority to enforce the law.
Lynching would be nationally repudiated by
the enactment of the pending bill. The early enactment would
mark the first step in breaking down the tradition that any
American could be lynched-with-impunity; it would do much to
enhance the prestige of American democracy throughout the world.
Indeed, there is no justification for further delay and there is
every reason for the passage of this law by the American
Congress.
Lynching Must Go!
Source:
The
Interracial Review, May 1947
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The Anti-Lynching Bill
An Editorial
Twenty-eight self-confessed lynchers were set
free last May by a Greenville, S. C., jury. Meanwhile,
twenty-eight men who shot down two Negro couples in Monroe,
Georgia., last summer are still at liberty. Nevertheless
Congress has adjourned after by-passing a bill that would have
made lynching a federal offense-the only course that will end
the virtual immunity of those who choose to kill in the name of
racial intolerance.
By passing the anti-poll tax bill in the
House in spite of Southern filibusters, the 80th
Congress encouraged hope that it would strike yet another blow
for Negro citizens by assuring that hereafter every lyncher
would be tracked down with the skill and resources at the
command of the federal government. That it failed to so has been
a sharp disappointment to all justice loving Americans. But this
disappointment should breed a determination that the new
Congress finally enact a law for which leading church and civic
organizations throughout the country-the South especially-have
consistently clamored.
The next step rests with individual citizens.
In the interval before Congress is re-convened, voters can write
their Congressmen and Senators telling them how they feel about
the lynching evil and demanding that legislators face squarely
the issue before them.
By decisively meeting the challenge of
lynching the next Congress will be merely carrying out, however
belatedly, the clear wish of most citizens, white as well as
Negro. The temper of public opinion on this issue id evident
from a recent Gallup Poll which shows that in the North 69
percent of voters favor anti-lynching legislation, while in the
South 56 percent approve.
Nine percent of Northerners and 16 percent of
Southerners questioned in the Gallop survey had “no opinion”
in regard to the proposed legislation. Perhaps stirring up this
apparent lethargic element, the majority pressure for the bill
will be increased to such a degree that Congress will be made
more aware of the need for swift and forthright action.
Source: The
Interracial Review August 1947
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Walter Francis White
(July 1, 1893, Atlanta, Georgia – March 21, 1955, New York, New York)
was an African American who became a spokesman for his community in the
United States for almost a quarter of a century, and served as executive
secretary (1931–1955) of the
National Association for the Advancement of Colored People. He
graduated from Atlanta University in 1916 (now
Clark Atlanta University). In 1918 he joined the small national
staff of the NAACP in New York at the invitation of
James Weldon Johnson. White acted as Johnson's assistant national
secretary. In 1931 he succeeded him at the helm of the NAACP.
White oversaw the plans and
organizational structure of the fight against public segregation. Under
his leadership, the NAACP set up the
Legal Defense Fund, which raised numerous legal challenges to
segregation and disfranchisement, and achieved many successes. Among
these was the Supreme Court ruling in
Brown v. Board of Education, which determined that segregated
education was inherently unequal. He was the virtual author of President
Truman's presidential order desegregating the armed forces after the
Second World War. White also quintupled NAACP membership to nearly
500,000.In addition to his NAACP work, White was a journalist, novelist,
and essayist, and influential in the Harlem Renaissance of the 1920s.
Wikipedia.
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Bill
Moyers Interviews Douglass A. Blackmon
http://www.pbs.org/moyers/journal/06202008/watch2.html
Douglas A. Blackmon,
Slavery by Another Name: The Re-Enslavement of Black Americans from the
Civil War to World War II (2008)
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