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Showing 1 to 20 of 41 for “"Lynching"”.
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Resisting Lynching: Black Grassroots Responses to Lynching in the Mississippi and Arkansas Deltas, 1882--1938
"This dissertation counters histories of lynching that have tended to view black lynch victims and black communities as primarily passive victims of white mob violence. It moves beyond histories of black anti-lynching protest that have primarily focused on prominent black spokespersons and national …
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Resisting Lynching: Black Grassroots Responses to Lynching in the Mississippi and Arkansas Deltas, 1882-1938
“Resisting Lynching: Black Grassroots Responses to Lynching in the Mississippi and Arkansas Deltas, 1882-1938” explores the social and cultural history of the black experience of lynching. It highlights the pervasiveness of lynch mob violence, the failure of local, state, and federal governments to …
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Incredible Injustice: Lynching in the Southern United States
Fear illuminated by competition legitimized lynching. This practice unequivocally altered the mindset, character, and spirit of the African American male. A societal hierarchy was built off of this practice which owned roots in hatred and fear. It’s by products were racism and “Jim Crow” …
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Honor, Supremacy, and the Lynching of Henry Smith
… is to shed light on the shadowed history of lynching in the postbellum South, keeping in mind the unique elements of East Texas’ economic, political, and social climates before, during, and after Henry Smith’s murder. The goal is to situate the specific events surrounding Henry Smith’s …
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The King of the Damned. Reading Lynching as Leisure: The Analysis of Lynching Photography for Examples of Violent Forms of Leisure and Places of Power
Keywords: Lynching, Visual Methodologies, reflexivity, and place.
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Forgetting the Lynching of Jesse Washington: Manifestations of Memory and the "Waco Horror"
… the past. At the center of the debate, a lynching of a seventeen-year old African American named Jesse Washington in 1916. Also known as the “Waco Horror,” the lynching disappeared from public conversation in Waco shortly after its occurrence. For nearly a century, the lynching remained …
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Between the Mob and the Noose: The Lynching Intercessor in American Literature and Film
… mob by interceding on behalf of the intended lynching victim. I argue that this figure, which I term the lynching intercessor, is a trope for racial reconciliation in American literature and film. The intercessor works to mediate between loyalty to an ideal democracy and recognition of a past …
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Tradition And Satisfaction: The Mob And Lynching In The Georgian Cotton Belt, 1890-1899
… in the complex equation that culminated in a lynching event. Despite popular assumptions, lynching events were not always random acts of violence committed by lawless bands of racist, drunken, and ignorant, mobs. Lynching events were the reactions of a middle-class white male population who …
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The whirlwind and the lynching tree : apocalyptic and liberation theology in the black Waco tradition.
… of divine justice in the aftermath of the 1916 lynching of Jesse Washington. Historically anchored by this tradition, my concern is two-fold: first, to provide a critical interpretation of this tradition; second, to value its methodological significance as a way of doing theology. I argue that …
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IN THE SOULS OF ALL OF US: MASCULINITY, WHITE SUPREMACY, AND THE DISCOURSE OF LYNCHING IN AMERICA
… development and perpetuation of the discourse of lynching, particularly as this discourse relates to the era of spectacle lynching (late 1880s to early 1930s). After offering an historical and ritual analysis of the practice of lynching, examining the ways this practice reified and perpetuated a …
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Political violence in the American South: 1882-1890
… Both historians and political scientists assume lynching to be the method through which the white population of the American South prevented political and social equality. Lynching is a form of ethnic violence, but there has not yet been a rigorous methodological examination of it as a potential …
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The Dyer bill in Congress : a history of the first major attempt to curb lynching in the United States by federal legislation
<p>This historical account of the Dyer Anti-Lynching Bill of 1920 has been undertaken for two main purposes. The first may be termed the author's interest in lynching as an American institution. The second is a desire to portray clearly the facts concerning the first major legislative attempt to …
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Dark Days in the Ohio Valley: Three Western Kentucky Lynchings, 1884-1911
This thesis investigates three lynchings of African Americans in Progressive-Era western Kentucky. The first occurred in Owensboro. In July 1884, a masked mob at-tacked the Daviess County jail. Richard May, an African-American field hand, had been incarcerated for the alleged sexual assault of a …
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Silence Descends: Lynchings and Their Aftermath in Lafayette and Union Counties, Mississippi
… of silence is explored with regard to how two lynchings in North Mississippi have, or have not, been memorialized. L.Q. Ivy was lynched in Union County in 1925. Despite several newspaper articles over the decades since the lynching has occurred his death is not acknowledged in the local history …
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The Omaha riot of 1919
… by the unique circumstances surrounding the lynching of Will Brown. The purpose of the thesis is to unravel the strange effects of this unusual lynching and riot. Because of the local and political nature of the event, such usual source materials as books and journals relating to it are …
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Before Crenshaw: a historiographical look at intersectional identity in three twentieth-century American plays by Eaton, Grimké, and Treadwell
… of Rachel from Angelina Weld Grimke’s anti-lynching play Rachel. For the third chapter, the identities of both female leads from<em>Hope for a Harvest</em> by Sophie Treadwell are analyzed. Each chapter will also investigate the strong autobiographical ties the playwrights have to their …
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A Place to Call Home: A Study of the Self-Segregated Community of Tatums, Oklahoma, 1894-1970
… residents of the HBTs were not the targets of lynching or mob violence. During the years after World War II, Tatums residents enjoyed the greatest prosperity. The final chapter looks at the battle Tatums' residents fought to keep their school from being closed after the state of Oklahoma began …
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Violence and American Statebuilding, 1860-1895
… marauders, corporate militias, and lynching communities—have established and maintained US government power at the local, state, and national level. This dissertation’s three case studies correct that tendency. They explore how American statebuilders deployed, sanctioned, or turned a …
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Crafting the past: the appropriation of found photography in the African-American revisionist art of Betye Saar
… style. Next, the controversial theme of lynching photography will be used to focus on her distinctive style of revisionism, comprised of object pairing and juxtaposition. Lastly, the project will explore how her manipulation of images challenges the authority of found photographs. …
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