Lynching by State and Race 1882-1962
| State |
Whites |
Blacks |
Total |
| Alabama |
48 |
299 |
347* |
| Arizona |
31 |
0 |
31 |
| Arkansas |
58 |
226 |
284* |
| California |
41 |
2 |
43 |
| Colorado |
66 |
2 |
68 |
| Delaware |
0 |
1 |
1 |
| Florida |
24 |
257 |
282* |
| Georgia |
39 |
491 |
530* |
| Idaho |
20 |
0 |
20 |
| Illinois |
15 |
19 |
34 |
| Indiana |
33 |
14 |
47 |
| Iowa |
17 |
2 |
19 |
| Kansas |
35 |
19 |
54 |
| Kentucky |
63 |
142 |
205* |
| Louisiana |
56 |
335 |
391* |
| Maryland |
2 |
27 |
29 |
| Michigan |
7 |
1 |
8 |
| Minnesota |
5 |
4 |
9 |
| Mississippi |
40 |
538 |
578* |
| Missouri |
53 |
69 |
122* |
| Montana |
82 |
2 |
84 |
| Nebraska |
52 |
5 |
57 |
| Nevada |
6 |
0 |
6 |
| New Jersey |
0 |
1 |
1 |
| New Mexico |
33 |
3 |
36 |
| New York |
1 |
1 |
2 |
| North Carolina |
15 |
85 |
100* |
| North Dakota |
13 |
3 |
16 |
| Ohio |
10 |
16 |
26 |
| Oklahoma |
82 |
40 |
122* |
| Oregon |
20 |
1 |
21 |
| Pennsylvania |
2 |
6 |
8 |
| South Carolina |
4 |
156 |
160 |
| South Dakota |
27 |
0 |
27 |
| Tennessee |
47 |
204 |
251* |
| Texas |
141 |
352 |
493* |
| Utah |
6 |
2 |
8 |
| Vermont |
1 |
0 |
1 |
| Virginia |
17 |
83 |
100* |
| Washington |
25 |
1 |
26 |
| West Virginia |
20 |
28 |
48 |
| Wisconsin |
6 |
0 |
6 |
| Wyoming |
30 |
5 |
35 |
| Total |
1,294 |
3,442 |
4,736 |
* Mostly states of the Old Confederacy, with
Mississippi,
Georgia, and Texas the worst of the lot.
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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.
The corpses of five
African American males, Nease Gillepsie, John Gillepsie,
"Jack" Dillingham, Henry Lee, and George Irwin with
onlookers.
August 6, 1906. Salisbury, North Carolina.
Gelatin silver print. Real photo postcard. 3 1/2 x 5 1/2
in
FROM
KLUTTZ'S STUDIO E. Council St., near Court House, SALISBURY,
N.C.
The mob numbered into the thousands that wrenched five black men
from the civil authorities of Salisbury, North Carolina on the
night of August 3, 1906. They accused the men of murdering
members of a local family, named Lyerly.
The New York Times reported that the victims were
tortured with knives before being hanged and then riddled with
bullets. The authorities in North Carolina, alarmed at
what was one of the largest multiple lynchings of the 20th
century, took unusual steps to punish the leaders of the mob. |
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After the Governor ordered the National Guard to restore order,
local officials arrested more than two-dozen suspected leaders.
One of the killers, George Hall, was convicted and sentenced to
15 years at a hard labor in the state penitentiary. The
New York Times predicted that, by taking these measures,
North Carolina's Governor Glenn was not improving his political
prospects.
Source:
Withoutsanctuary
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Salvage the Bones
A Novel by Jesmyn Ward
On one level, Salvage the Bones is a simple story about a poor black family that’s about to be trashed by one of the most deadly hurricanes in U.S. history. What makes the novel so powerful, though, is the way Ward winds private passions with that menace gathering force out in the Gulf of Mexico. Without a hint of pretension, in the simple lives of these poor people living among chickens and abandoned cars, she evokes the tenacious love and desperation of classical tragedy. The force that pushes back against Katrina’s inexorable winds is the voice of Ward’s narrator, a 14-year-old girl named Esch, the only daughter among four siblings. Precocious, passionate and sensitive, she speaks almost entirely in phrases soaked in her family’s raw land. Everything here is gritty, loamy and alive, as though the very soil were animated. Her brother’s “blood smells like wet hot earth after summer rain. . . . His scalp looks like fresh turned dirt.” Her father’s hands “are like gravel,” while her own hand “slides through his grip like a wet fish,” and a handsome boy’s “muscles jabbered like chickens.” Admittedly, Ward can push so hard on this simile-obsessed style that her paragraphs risk sounding like a compost heap, but this isn’t usually just metaphor for metaphor’s sake. She conveys something fundamental about Esch’s fluid state of mind: her figurative sense of the world in which all things correspond and connect. She and her brothers live in a ramshackle house steeped in grief since their mother died giving birth to her last child. . . . What remains, what’s salvaged, is something indomitable in these tough siblings, the strength of their love, the permanence of their devotion.— WashingtonPost
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The New Jim Crow
Mass Incarceration in the Age of
Colorblindness
By Michele Alexander
Contrary to the
rosy picture of race embodied in Barack
Obama's political success and Oprah
Winfrey's financial success, legal
scholar Alexander argues vigorously and
persuasively that [w]e have not ended
racial caste in America; we have merely
redesigned it. Jim Crow and legal racial
segregation has been replaced by mass
incarceration as a system of social
control (More African Americans are
under correctional control today... than
were enslaved in 1850). Alexander
reviews American racial history from the
colonies to the Clinton administration,
delineating its transformation into the
war on drugs. She offers an acute
analysis of the effect of this mass
incarceration upon former inmates who
will be discriminated against, legally,
for the rest of their lives, denied
employment, housing, education, and
public benefits. Most provocatively, she
reveals how both the move toward
colorblindness and affirmative action
may blur our vision of injustice: most
Americans know and don't know the truth
about mass incarceration—but her
carefully researched, deeply engaging,
and thoroughly readable book should
change that.—Publishers
Weekly |
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The White Masters
of the World
From
The World and Africa, 1965
By W. E. B. Du Bois
W. E. B. Du Bois’
Arraignment and Indictment of White Civilization
(Fletcher)
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