A Picture Can Say 1,000 words… Especially During Reconstruction.
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Execution by a mob of one individual who committed crimes/broke unwritten social laws
Five or more persons taking the law into their own hands
Mob assemblage without legal right acting to kill or injure people, depriving them the right to due process or equal protection
Expression of the community’s will
→ tacit compliance with lynching= participation
What Is Lynching?
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White Supremacy
http://us.history.wisc.edu/hist102/photos/html/1010.html
Jim Crow, Intimidation and Fear
Segregation
http://www.pbs.org/wnet/jimcrow/php/scribble.php?pic=3
What were Jim Crow laws?From the 1880s into the 1960s, most American states enforced segregation through "Jim Crow" laws (so called after a black character in minstrel shows).
From Delaware to California, and from North Dakota to Texas, many states (and cities, too) could impose legal punishments on people for mingling with members of another race.
The most common types of laws forbade intermarriage and ordered business owners and public institutions to keep blacks and whites separated.
Minstrel ShowsAmerican entertainment consisting
of comic skits, variety acts, dancing, and music, performed by
white people in blackface
Minstrel shows lampooned black people as ignorant, lazy,
buffoonish, superstitious, joyous, and musical.
Some Facilities that Were Separate: Bus station waiting rooms and ticket windows
Railroad cars or coaches
Restaurants and lunch counters
Schools and public parks
Restrooms and water fountains
Sections of movie theaters
There were even separate cemeteries
Stetson Kennedy, the author of Jim Crow Guide, offered these simple rules that Blacks were supposed to observe in conversing with Whites:
Never assert or even intimate that a White person is lying.
Never impute dishonorable intentions to a White person.
Never suggest that a White person is from an inferior class.
Never lay claim to, or overly demonstrate, superior knowledge or intelligence.
Never curse a White person.
Never laugh derisively at a White person.
Never comment upon the appearance of a White female.
A rest stop for bus passengers on the way from Louisville, Kentucky to Nashville, Tennessee, with separate entrance for Blacks. 1943.