There can be no doubt that there have been many lynchings chargeable to rape, when the true cause should be designated by a different, though an ugly name.
Let us not forget, also, that not more than one-third of the lynchings are even chargeable to rape.
The attempts at rape and the consequent lynchings are also offered in evidence of the evil propensity of the race.
It is not a part of the plan of this pamphlet to make any defense for that crusade nor to indict any apology for the motives which led to the presentation of the facts of American lynchings to the world at large.
Fourteen hundred and twenty-seven (1,427) lynchings are recorded for the period named.
In two cases the lynchings were carried out in the court house yard and in one of these picture post card photos were sold on the streets at 25 cents each.
Finally, some lynchings which do not get into the press, are not carried beyond the immediate neighborhood, sometimes a very small one, unless there is some unusual feature to distinguish the event.
These lynchings might well be regarded as evidences of civil war were it not that up to this time the Negroes have not retaliated in kind.
Some lynchings were carried out pursuant to this program, but it does not appear that they were carried out throughout all of Germany.
It may be said that the lynchings occur chiefly in those sections or counties where the numbers of whites and negroes are nearly equal.
Thus the lynchings went on, the victims sometimes being guilty of the gravest crimes, but often also perfectly innocent people.
He calls attention to the fact that whereas it has been charged that lynchings find their excuse in rape, it has been shown again and again that this crime is the excuse for only one-fourth or one-fifth of the cases of violence.
Besides the New Orleans case, a history of burnings in this country is given, together with a table of lynchings for the past eighteen years.
Less than one-sixth of the lynchings last year, 1899, were charged with rape.
THE SOUTH IS A GOOD PLACE FOR THE NEGRO TO LIVE, provided, however, the better class of citizens will rise up and demand that lynchings and mobs shall cease, and that the officers of the law shall do their duty without prejudice.
Negroes in Florida gave as their reason for going north the horrible lynchings in Tennessee.
The white press in Georgia maintained that lynchings were driving the negroes in large numbers from that State.
They plead that lynching is the only penalty which will keep the Negro in bounds, although there are such strings of lynchings as show conclusively that the publicity given to sickening details makes lynching simply a breeder of crime.
Most of the murders and other crimes which lead to lynchings happen where Whites and Negroes are living close together.
About 1880 lynching of Negroes began to increase, nominally because of more frequent rapes of white women; and to this day one often hears it said: "Lynchings never occur except for the one crime.
That the South can get on without lynchings is shown by the gradual diminution in the number of instances.
The occurrence of rapes, lynchings and burnings in the North and West has had beneficial influence upon the question at large.
Lynchings must not be tolerated in a great and civilized country like the United States.
Lynchings must not be tolerated in a great and civilized country like the United States; courts, not mobs, must execute the penalties of the law.
It is true that individual Negroes, by fiendish assaults on white women, now and then rouse men to frenzy, but statistics show that only about a fifth of the lynchings of Negroes are because of the 'usual crime.
In large areas of the country where lynchings and beatings were commonplace, white supremacy had existed as a literal fact of life and death.
This anxiety arose mainly from accounts of increased lynchings and persistent rumors that the Ku Klux Clan was being revived in order, so the rumor ran, "to keep the Negro soldier in his place.
Are lynchings and the most horrible crimes connected therewith a lawful proceeding in a democratic country?
The mob had the right to execute the law, and it is not often that lynchings take place long periods after the commission of the crime.
It is true, however, that there are very fewlynchings in which these formulas have not been unconsciously followed.
Another fact which has been most difficult to explain has been the continued lynchings of Negroes not merely for crimes against women, but for all sorts of other crimes, large and small.
In the years immediately preceding the war, racially motivated lynchings and riots, which had been largely confined to the South, began to spread into the North and Midwest.
Perhaps the clearest and cruelest index of the lowest state to which the black had been relegated was the large number of lynchings which occurred at the end of the century, In the 1890s lynchings of both blacks and whites were common.
Lynchings reached a high point in American history at this time.
For lynchingsprompted by other crimes than rape see below, p.
Other examples will show that lynchings were not altogether lacking in those days in sequel to such crimes.
Constant lynchings emphasized his impotence, and bred everywhere a growing contempt for his rights.
Riots and lynchings do not arise from that reason, but from alleged individual assaults upon white women.
Seventy-two out of the seventy-seven lynchingsoccurred south of the Mason-Dixon line, and the rest occurred in the Western States.
It is said that in countries where the laws are badly administered and the police held in little respect, lynchings are the more frequent.
By far the greatest number of lynchings are for supposed murder.
He’ll tell you stories of lynchings that would make you think we lynched a nigger every week, instead of it’s being the rarest occurrence.
It may be thought that this is written with too much emphasis, and that this statement on the lynchings is too unmerciful to the white South.
Lynchings are bad business in Florida, for if the things occurred there that take place in the neighboring State of Georgia it would certainly frighten away many polite and wealthy visitors.
Tuskegee, besides its educational work, does much to combat race hatred, and keeps public opinion in America well informed on the lynchings that take place.
There would be Frenchmen and Englishmen and Italians, and, being so near to the South, it would be a shame to America if lynchings took place while they were sitting.
Even if all the lynchingsand burnings and humiliations and disabilities be put together they do not add up to one year of servitude.
One of these Georgia lynchings which occurred last year was a characteristic affair.
Lynchings and mobs will not solve the problem, for it has been proven that such actions beget crimes.
But neither laws nor lynchingscan subdue his lusts.
The frequency of theselynchings calls attention to the frequency of the crimes which causes lynching.
The editorial in question was prompted by the many inhuman and fiendish lynchings of Afro-Americans which have recently taken place and was meant as a warning.
But Mr. Johnson is mistaken in supposing that the lynchingsof which he complains evidence an abnormal thirst for blood on the part of the American people.
As a rulelynchings are conducted in quite as orderly and humane a manner as legal esecutions.
That is a vast improvement over the original statement published by Coon-Captain Otis to the effect that Southern white women seek black paramours, and that most lynchings are caused by the guilty parties getting caught.
I do not doubt for one moment that much of the lawless violence and cruelty exhibited in lynchings is directly due to the uncertainties and injustice growing out of the delays in trials, judgments, and the executions thereof by our courts.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "lynchings" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
