Lynching

1. Lynching

2. Lynching • It is the illegal execution of an accused person by a mob. (to execute or punish violently without a lawful trial) • Lynching was a system of punishment to African-American slaves. • “Lynching” comes from Charles Lynch, a justice of peace who administered rough justices in Virginia from 1736 to 1796.

3. Lynching (continued) • Whites lynch African-Americans because they sometimes broke a law such as to offend a white person. • Sometimes they lynch them because they simply hate them or of small offences such as public drunkenness or shoplifting.

4. Types of lynching • Race murder, Murder, Rape. • Most of the lynching was done by hanging. • all lynching was done to African-Americans, but most was done to African-Americans. • In 1920 census show that the black population was 9.9% of the U.S. population.

5. Lynching of African-American • Whites lynched African-American for punishment if they did something wrong. Most Blacks were lynched mostly because of their skin color.

6. Lynching in the South • It has been estimated that between 1880 and 1920, an average of 2 African-Americans a week were lynched in the U.S. • The South people still treats African-Americans as slaves and as their properties. • Slaves were popular in the south because they have many plantations and in a perfect situation to grow cash crops, so they need as much slaves as possible.

7. Other people that were lynched • African-American especially, and sometimes Native Americans, Latinos, Jews, Asian Immigrants and European newcomers.

8. People who Tried to stop lynching • People who tried to stop it were Barnet, Lillian Smith, Jessie Daniel Ames, Angelina .a., Weld Grime, Georgia Douglas Johnson.

9. Who is Emmett Till • Emmett till was a young man who was brutally lynched. He just wanted to hit on a white girl who had a husband already. The next day, he got kidnapped by two white guys. The two white guys went to jail but they couldn’t find Emmett Till’s body. the next four days, they found his dead body near a river.

10. Continue to Emmett Till • His left eye was detached form his eye socket and a barb wire was wrapped around his neck. His mother wanted an open coffin funeral so everyone can see what they did to him. Thousands of people came to his funeral.

11. Emmett Till’s lynching was important to the Civil Rights Movement • It was important to the Civil Rights Movement because it publicized how African-Americans were being treated. • Also writers such as William Bradford Hue publicized the Emmett Till case. • In the case to men were charged for the murder of Emmett Till, they were not proven guilty.

12. Timeline • 1905- The Niagara Movement started • 1906- A race riot and soldier riot • 1910- Census: African-Americans population is 10.7% of U.S. population • 1911- The National Urban League began • 1912- Wilson was elected president • 1913- A jubilee year • 1914- World War I started in Europe • 1915- Washington deceased

13. Timeline (continued) • 1918- World War I ended with 60 lynching • 1920- Census: African-American population is 9.9% of U.S. population • 1922- Anti lynching effort started • 1923- President Harding died • 1925- Assistant librarian of congress, Daniel A.P. Murray died

14. Key Facts • Some lynching are done by executions, whippings,brandings,sometimes the public separation of families,etc. • Some important ones are Ida.B.Wells-Barnet (a reporter who was against lynching), Franklin Delano Roosevelt (a candidate for future president at that time). • After the establishment of the Ku Klux Klan in 1876,the number if lynching of African- Americans increased dramatically.

15. Key Facts (continued) • The Ku Klux Klan is an organization of white supremacy that suppress the rights of African-Americans. • There was a decline in lynching during the World War I, but more than 70 African-Americans were lynched the next year after the war ended.