lynching and lynch mobs martin, parry, klingelhoffer
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LYNCHING AND LYNCH MOBS
Martin, Parry, Klingelhoffer
G I V E A B R I E F H I S T O RY O F LY N C H I N G S I N A M E R I C A A N D T H E O R I G I N S O F T H E
LY N C H M O B .
Lynching, or publicly humiliating and hanging African
Americans, was a popular form of punishment in
American’s Southern states from 1882 and 1930.
Mob violence instilled fear and racial supremacy over
African Americans.
Reasons for lynching included rape, stealing, poisoning
water well, trying to vote and even acting suspiciously.
H O W D I D LY N C H I N G C O M E T O R E P R E S E N T W H I T E H AT R E D O F B L A C K S ? W H Y W E R E S O
M A N Y W H I T E P E O P L E S U P P O R T I V E O F T H E M ?
Lynching come to represent white hatred because of the
disproportionate numbers of black victims.
From 1882-1930 462 African Americans were killed in
Mississippi, 423 were killed in Georgia, and 262 in Alabama. 2,500
lynch victims were African-American while only 300 lynch victims
were white.
Many white people supported lynch mobs in the Southern states
because of Mob Mentality or going along with a group because
“everyone is doing it.”
E X P L A I N T H E R E C E N T R E - E M E R G E N C E O F S Y M B O L S O F LY N C H I N G ( T H E J E N A S I X , E T C . ) .
W H A T E F F E C T H A S I T H A D O N R A C I A L T E N S I O N S I N A M E R I C A ?
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CONNECTION TO TO KILL A MOCKINGBIRD
Lynching and Lynch Mobs relate to To Kill a
Mockingbird because their even through Tom
Robinson wasn’t lynched, he was killed because of
racial tension and discrimination. Also, the chapter
where Atticus is protecting Tom from outside of the
jail shows Mob Mentality. This topic also helps us
understand what the era was like for African-
Americans and how difficult and scary everyday life
was for them when living in the Southern states.
WORKS CITED
Braziel, Evans. “History of Lynching in the United
States”. Urbana and Chicago: University of
Illinois Press. 1992. Online.
“The Case of Louisiana’s ‘Jena Six’”. NPR. 5 August
2008. Online.