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Episodes tagged "Lynching": 1 through 5 of 5

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  1. When Will It Ever Change?
    date July 11, 1930map New York, New Yorktags Crime/Violence, African-Americans, Lynching

    News stories relating ‘death by accident,’ ‘murder by one of own’ or even an ‘unsolved mystery’ are just too far-fetched to explain the discovery of so many ‘Negro’ bodies found in the swamps or in uninhabited places in 1930.  It is inconceivable to think that the white tyrannical press believe that we are fooled by their fabrications about the missing southern ‘Negro’ workers,”...

  2. A Protest Against the Burning and Lynching of Negros by Booker T. Washington
    date February 29, 1904map Jefferson, Alabamatags Booker T. Washington, Lynching

    Booker T. Washington was an African American educator and political activist.  Although born a slave in 1856, he and his family were later emancipated but still lived in poverty.  Determined to get an education, Washington started work at the age of nine to put himself through school.  After his extensive education, Washington would later be chosen to be the first head of what is now Tuskegee University....

  3. The Lynching of Leo Frank
    date August 17, 1915map Cobb, Georgiatags Anti-Semitism, Crime/Violence, Lynching

    On August 17, 1915, Leo Frank, a Jewish businessman awoke to 25 armed men storming into the jail he was being held at in Milledgeville, Georgia. Despite faulty and clear mishandling of evidence, as well as forced confessions from many witnesses, Frank was convicted and sentenced to death for the rape and murder of 13 year old Mary Phagan, a young girl that was employed in his factory. However, influenced...

  4. At the Hands of “los diablos tejanos”
    date September, 1915map Hidalgo, Texastags Mexican-American, Texas Rangers, Treaty Guadalupe Hidalgo, Lynching, Protocol of Queretaro, Borderlands, General Frederick Funston, Texas-Mexico border

    During the first week of September in 1915, Texas Rangers prowled searching for Mexican bandits in Cuevitas, Texas.  An article in the Boston Daily Globe, reported that a Ranger called his fellow companions to come to a halt.  He spotted a group of Mexican men around a campfire and descended from his horse towards them.  The Rangers caught the riders by surprise and quickly placed them under restraint. ...

  5. Middle-Class Blacks on Lynching
    date August 31, 1911map New Hanover, North Carolinatags middle-class, Lynching, african americans

    “The key to success for our race depends not on uprising and quarrels, but on the obedience to law and order.” Doctor W.M. Alexander echoed these words throughout a congregation of 500 prominent African American men at a conference in Wilmington. During the discussions on lynching and the crime rate among African Americans, Alexander argued to his constituents that submission to law was the foundation...