Post-Slavery "Lynching Laws" and anti-Black Mob Violence
Lynching Laws
When chattel slavery ended with the Emancipation Proclamation & Thirteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution southern white world terror domination continued unabated under the de facto rule of "Lynching Laws"
“The United States has a brutal history of domestic violence. It is the most ugly episode in United States history; and its relevance and relationship to current day police brutality is dutifully neglected in our public school system. Of the several varieties of American violence against people of Afrikan descent, one type stands out as one of the most inhuman chapters in the history of the world—lynching.
"In 1919, the NAACP reported 3,386 incidents of lynching between 1882-1918.
In a controversial 1992 revision, sociologists Stewart E. Tolnay and E.M. Beck, argue that duplication of reporting produced an over count.
They claim only 2,805 lynchings (nearly 2500 of which were Blacks) can be documented between 1882 and 1930, in ten southern states."
From: NAACP, Thirty Years of Lynching in the United States: 1889-1918 (New York: Arno Press, 1919), p. 29 and Stewart E. Tolnay and E.M. Beck, Festival of Violence: An Analysis of Southern Lynching, 1882-1930 (Urbana and Chicago: University of Illinois)..
Gangs and the 1919 Chicago Race Riot
Gangs have played an infamous role in supporting segregation by racist violence. The story of Chicago's white gangs is seldom told. The seminal event in the early industrial era was the 1919 race riot.
The history of this riot, and the crucial role of white gangs, is told in the 1922 report of The Chicago Commission on Race Relations. One of the principle findings of the Commission was: "6. Gangs, particularly among the young whites, formed definite nucelei for crowd and mob leadership. "Athletic clubs" supplied the leaders of many gangs.". What follows is an expanded summary of the report's description of the role of white gangs...Read More
Black Wallstreet
RBG Street Scholar "Black History"
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When chattel slavery ended with the Emancipation Proclamation & Thirteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution southern white world terror domination continued unabated under the de facto rule of "Lynching Laws"
“The United States has a brutal history of domestic violence. It is the most ugly episode in United States history; and its relevance and relationship to current day police brutality is dutifully neglected in our public school system. Of the several varieties of American violence against people of Afrikan descent, one type stands out as one of the most inhuman chapters in the history of the world—lynching."In 1919, the NAACP reported 3,386 incidents of lynching between 1882-1918.
In a controversial 1992 revision, sociologists Stewart E. Tolnay and E.M. Beck, argue that duplication of reporting produced an over count.
They claim only 2,805 lynchings (nearly 2500 of which were Blacks) can be documented between 1882 and 1930, in ten southern states."
From: NAACP, Thirty Years of Lynching in the United States: 1889-1918 (New York: Arno Press, 1919), p. 29 and Stewart E. Tolnay and E.M. Beck, Festival of Violence: An Analysis of Southern Lynching, 1882-1930 (Urbana and Chicago: University of Illinois)..
Gangs and the 1919 Chicago Race Riot
Gangs have played an infamous role in supporting segregation by racist violence. The story of Chicago's white gangs is seldom told. The seminal event in the early industrial era was the 1919 race riot. The history of this riot, and the crucial role of white gangs, is told in the 1922 report of The Chicago Commission on Race Relations. One of the principle findings of the Commission was: "6. Gangs, particularly among the young whites, formed definite nucelei for crowd and mob leadership. "Athletic clubs" supplied the leaders of many gangs.". What follows is an expanded summary of the report's description of the role of white gangs...Read More
Black Wallstreet
RBG Street Scholar "Black History"
Picture Collage Summaries Notepad
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