spreading the word about the horrific nature of lynching in the American South. Wells was a journalist‚ teacher‚ rights activist‚ and a public speaker. As an African American woman in the south during this time‚ Ida B. Wells was able to use her status as journalist to expose to the general public the true facts of lynching cases that suggested black wrongdoings. Wells used cases from all over America to convey the innocence of African American lynching victims. There was a huge double standard between
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“Strange Fruit” came to articulate the racism and brutality of lynching* endured by so many in the United States‚ particularly in the south. According to figures kept by the Tuskegee Institute‚ of the 3833 lynchings between 1889 and 1940‚ four fifths of the ninety percent lynched in the south were of African American descent. As horrific and cruel lynching was‚ it was considered acceptable. Society at the time believed that lynching was an act that was designed to keep African Americans in their
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In most places across the south‚ blacks had few choices but to abide by the laws and accept their predicament. After Reconstruction‚ white southerners regained control of their states‚ wanting to keep blacks from dispute and refraining them from gaining civil rights. In order to maintain their slave society‚ southern whites continued to believe that blacks were naturally inferior to themselves and therefore were entitled to few rights. To help enforce this concept‚ the Jim Crow laws were created
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different metaphorical readings within. Different readings of the poem present these different metaphors. The central metaphor‚ from the “root” of the poem‚ I believe is the ‘absurdity of the lynching’ of the African Americans in the southern states. This poem employs imagery of the brutality of the lynching; not only that‚ we get the sense of the smell of the south‚ “magnolia sweet and fresh”. Magnolia was the symbol of the south; of pure‚ sweet and white. Meeropol wants to connect with the reader
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through torture methods such as lynching‚ segregation‚ and Jim Crow laws. In the late 1800’s‚ African Americans were being lynched by whites often for no reason or for minor crimes. In her “Lynch Law in America” written in 1900‚ Ida B. Wells states: “The result is that many men have been put to death whose innocence was afterward established; and to-day‚ under this reign of the “unwritten law‚” no colored man‚ no matter what his reputation‚ is safe from lynching if a white woman‚ no matter what
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"The way to right wrongs is to turn the light of truth upon them". This quote was stated by Ida B. Wells. Wells was born in Holly Springs‚ Mississippi‚ in 1862 and died in Chicago‚ Illinois‚ in 1931 at the age of 69. When Wells was young‚ the epidemic " Yellow Fever"‚ ravaged through Mississippi‚ killing her parents and her youngest sibling. She became a teacher in order to support her remaining family. Despite the racism she had faced during her teaching career‚ her first act of defiance towards
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cause of American lynchings because of the fear of the Negro‚ and a lynch law was a means of social control. Of the documented lynchings in the late 1800s‚ nearly three quarters of victims were black it is said that “lynch mobs were more active during that period since it was a time of major social transition after the collapse of slavery‚ where the entire community felt at risk so survival of the group becomes more important. The power threat model is also linked to lynchings since the racist myth
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filled the air. Such was the nature of lynching‚ and such is the nature of racism. From the late 1890s until around 1930‚ lynchings were not altogether uncommon (Stovel 884). Black men were most often the victims of this heinous act‚ and police did worse than turn a blind eye — they sometimes participated. A photograph of this particular scene — grisly‚ nauseating‚ and shameful — would eventually find
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Throughout the late 19th century‚ 4‚743 lynchings occurred in the United States. Most of these people that were lynched were black. Was lynching necessary? To many people it was not‚ but to the whites in the late 19th century it served a purpose. Whites started lynching because they felt it was necessary to protect white women. Rape though was not a great factor in reasoning behind the lynching. It was the third greatest cause of lynchings behind homicides and ’all other causes’. It’s sad
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May 2011 The Real Story Behind The Reel Almost every movie that is either inspired by a true story or based on a true story doesn’t convey the real story. Unless it’s a documentary then the movie more than likely isn’t the true story. Hollywood directors and writers take real stories of people and their lives and make them into a big Hollywood production. Therefore‚ the true story is lost in all the action and drama that the writers put into these movies. There are a huge number of movies that
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