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In 1922, the National Association of the Advancement of Colored People ran full page ads in newspapers to publicize Dyer Anti-Lynching Bill and hopefully bring support for its passage. The ad series was titled “The Shame of America,” and showed outrageous statistics of lynching between 1899 and 1922. The ad below was put out after the bill was not passed by congress. One part of the ad talked about how mobs ultimately ignored the government process and inflicted the death penalty. It really emphasized how crimes are misdemeanor crimes are held to the same consequences as major felonies in mob’s eyes. Although these newspaper ads were years before the Blackman brothers were killed, it shows how years later African Americans were lynched for un reasonable causes.

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Throughout the first two newspaper assignments our group has been attempting to find a trend for the articles in which we have been researching and analyzing for these newspaper projects. Our trend quickly became the idea of civilian vigilante justice when it came to blacks who were convicted of crimes but not given a chance to even go to trial yet. It is evident that over the course of these three projects nothing had actually changed as far as those of white power and privilege seeing blacks as anything other than biologically inferior, unlike what we now know today which is race as a social construct. In our newspaper article titled “Two Negroes Lynched by Louisiana Mob: Brothers of Negro Who Killed Deputy Sheriff Taken From Officers on Way to Jail,” this trend of civilians taking matters into their own hands continues. William Blackman had been killed after he was accused of killing a deputy sheriff in their county. The brothers of William, Lee and Dave, were searched for and found by a plethora of Louisiana natives in hopes of gaining some altered form of justice. The two brothers were being held under police custody in hopes of keeping them safe from angry whites out for vengeance. After gaining word that people may storm the jail and take the brothers the deputy’s called for assistance in moving the brothers down the road in order to avoid an incident. It didn’t work. On their way to transporting the brothers a mob stopped the police car and ordered for the brothers to get out. Without any resistance from the police the brothers did and eventually ended up getting lynched by the hands of white supremacist bigots. This article is very interesting and brings up a number of different qualms with all sides of the story. First why go after the brothers? If William was actually guilty then he received retribution for the officer he killed but to go after his brothers who had nothing to do with the accident show more than a hatred for a man who killed an officer of the law but more so a hatred for the race of the man that killed their partner and friend. It is also questionable whether or not the officers transporting the brothers actually put up a fight against the mob. Police have had a long standing history of being just as racist and prejudice as any white power institution and that is one fact that needs to be considered in stories like this one. The final thing that is interesting is how the media portrays the story, even in the north. The Harlem renaissance was in full swing during this time period yet there was a clear divide between the north and south even though the civil war ended fifty years prior. Overall, this article was another example of civilians taking matters into their own hands without much backlash from the law or power establishments.

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Below is an article from the 1926’s that is about a mob in South Carolina murdering three black family members after they were acquitted of the crime of killing Aikens County Sheriff H. H Howard. A though they accident is slightly different then the Blackman Brothers. It supports the idea that the mobs were deliberately targeting African Americans regardless of the crimes they committed or if they were even related to the crime. This article could as be used in support of the idea that the justice system during this time was a racist and prejudice institution. It could very well be assumed that the mob faced no charges for enter the county jail and seize those who were detained.