... intercourse by threats of false accusations of rape. Otherwise, they would be either literally or metaphorically lynched. In a way unprecedented in Wright scholarship, Curry frames Wright’s “The Man of All Work” as an allegory for the rape of McGee. In the story, a black man cross-dresses in search...

... to legal lynching. While white Mississippians had not anticipated that McGee’s execution would have negative global consequences, their barbarous standing in the eyes of the world was less significant to them than local pressures to defend white power over blacks. This did not mean that international...

.... Wilkins Armeda Wilkins Asberry Wilkins Earl Wilkins Mayfield Wilkins Roy Wilkins William Williams Elizabeth Williams Sam integration Jonas Gilbert Appeal The Duluth MN lynching Minnesota Daily Northwestern Bulletin white racism Franklin Chester Kansas City MO Kansas City Call Badeau...

...This chapter explores the ways the NAACP used the arts in its fight against lynching. The three examples discussed are: antilynching plays written by black women; the Writers’ League Against Lynching, formed in the 1930s to provide information to writers about mob violence; and An Art...

...This book examines the role that white southern children played in the racial brutality of the Jim Crow South. The mass mob lynching ritual not only served as a means to repress African American resistance but also to reinforce the white community's concept of racial and gender supremacy...

...During Reconstruction, African American men were enfranchised and held public office. Yet, southern states soon passed laws that disenfranchised and segregated African Americans, and lynching reached its peak. Black Memphians saw a sharp decline in their political and social status...

... domination of what passed for official religion coalesced seamlessly with political, racial, and moral orthodoxy, and how it influenced important policy matters on such issues as lynching, disfranchisement, employment, law, and education, especially for African Americans. Arkansas Baptists conservatism...

...In 1917 Ell Persons was lynched in Memphis, Tennessee. Persons, a black woodchopper in his thirties, was burned alive in front of a crowd of at least 15,000 spectators at the Wolf River Bridge after being accused of raping and murdering a sixteen-year-old white schoolgirl by the name of Antoinette...

... tides turned, however, African Americans were left without paid employment or remuneration for their labor. What is more, they faced unfair punishment or lynching when they sought a share of the profits they had made for others. The poem culminates in a call for their hands to turn into revolting fists...

...Chapter 1 sets the stage for the lynching by illuminating the legacies of racism, Jim Crow, lynching, regionalism, World War II racism, Cold War race relations, and Brown v. Board of Education. Placing Emmett Till's family within the long history of the Great Black Migration...

... also played a central role in the campaign against lynchings. Images of white families involving their children in lynchings as part of their social ritual became a powerful propaganda tool for the antilynching movement, which sought to bring to national attention how white southerners perpetuate harm...

... of the girls' accusation, the rape-lynch rhetoric gave white southerners a way to unite along racial lines and strengthen white supremacy. Hence, the community often did not doubt the scapegoat's guilt and the victim's innocence in order to reap the social benefits of white unity. In this way, young girls...

..., an African American man shot and killed a local police officer, prompting a mob to break into the jail to capture and lynch the killer. Dickinson was appalled by the event while concluding that the man deserved his fate. She concludes the letter with a discussion of the racial composition of the local...

...Black Memphians pressed for economic opportunities, civil rights, improved public services, political influence, and an end to lynching from 1917 to 1927. They expanded their activism into new avenues such as National Association for the Advancement of Colored People and Commission on Interracial...

... Three Forks Battalion Unionists in Breathitt County violent tendencies inherency of Bierce on “Bloody Breathitt” and Civil War depoliticization of violence Edgefield SC “bloody Edgefield” feud Kentucky Civil War in legitimacy lynching in Breathitt County “outside world” and Breathitt County's...

...Amid general unification behind anticommunism, Emmett Louis Till's 1955 lynching engendered regional stories and illuminated racial dispositions that placed center stage all the vitriolic hatred that remained as a legacy of slavery, segregation, and white supremacy. Chronicling events surrounding...