New details emerge on lynchings in Jim Crow South (700 MORE than previous found)

[steve2470]

http://america.aljazeera.com/articles/2015/2/10/new-report-on-lynchings-in-jim-crow-south.html

A new report from the Alabama-based Equal Justice Initiative (EJI) said its researchers have documented nearly 4,000 lynchings of African-Americans in 12 states during the Jim Crow era — about 700 more than previous comprehensive studies have found.

Titled “Lynching in America: Confronting the Legacy of Racial Terror,” the EJI report said 3,959 lynchings of African-Americans took place from 1877 – 1950 in states across the south: Alabama, Arkansas, Florida, Georgia, Kentucky, Louisiana, Mississippi, North Carolina, South Carolina, Tennessee, Texas and Virginia.

Jim Crow laws enforced racial segregation in the South between 1877, when Reconstruction ended, and the beginning of the civil rights movements of the 1950s. The disenfranchisement of African-Americans in the Jim Crow era was cemented by the widespread use of violent tactics, including lynchings.

“Racial terror lynching was a tool used to enforce Jim Crow laws and racial segregation — a tactic for maintaining racial control by victimizing the entire African-American community, not merely punishment of an alleged perpetrator for a crime,” the report said.

[marym625]

1. wonder why they stopped in 1950

Look at all the bodies they found in the Mississippi River in the 60s.

I wish I could say I was surprised. But I can't.

[Cha]

2. Kick for now.. mahalo Steve..

[BumRushDaShow]

3. Thank Ida B. Wells for making it her life's work in the late 1800s - early 1900s

to fight lynching.

Good "Bio." (formerly Biography Channel) site about her with auto-start video story - http://www.biography.com/people/ida-b-wells-9527635

I remember watching the HBO film "Iron Jawed Angels" about Women's Suffrage, and Ida B. Wells was depicted, as she was also involved in the suffragan movement... but thanks to racism, was naturally relegated to the "back" of the marches by the white female organizers because of her race.

[steve2470]

4. good info, thanks! nt

[heaven05]

5. figures

[William769]

6. Kick & recommended.

[steve2470]

7. The period 1865-December 31, 1876 was left out....

so...actually...the number of lynchings was even HIGHER. Weren't there some lynchings after 1950 even ?

[marym625]

9. yes.

My reply to this OP, the first reply, talks about it.

This is a post of mine from last year.

http://www.democraticunderground.com/10026012710

Back in 1964 when the FBI was searching for the bodies of Chaney, Goodman and Schwerner, they dragged the Mississippi and Pearl Rivers. Though they didn't find those three Freedom Fighters in the river, they did find others. One was just a 14 year old boy with a C.O.R.E. t-shirt on. Seventeen bodies were found altogether, all were black males, at least 3 of which were Freedom Fighters. One was never identified, his head was missing. All were murdered. 

Listen to the song. It's haunting and heartbreaking.

[kickysnana]

8. No mistake that they sent the AA History Center in Detroit to the dump in the middle of the night.

They have been trying to rewrite history forever.