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Lynching of Jesse Whashington
- 17-year-old black teen lynched in Texas by white mob
- was accused of killing a white woman

Lynching of Mary Turne
- May 19, 1918 in Georgia
- abusive plantation owner Hampton Smith was shot and killed Mary denied that her husband did it
- they tied her ankles, hung her upside down from a tree, doused her in gasoline and motor oil, set her on fire
- was still alive when cut open with a knife
- unborn child fell to the ground, was stomped and crushed
- body was riddled with hundreds of bullets

Modern day lynching
- George Floyd killed by police officer

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Bad: not telling full truth -> exaggeration can lead to being misinformed

Good: exaggeration can make it easier to picture the bad treatment and it also builds more suspense

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Lynching refers to an act of violence where an individual is typically killed by hanging in public without a court trial. It often involves a group of people.
Term “lynching” refers to Charles Lynch, a plantation owner and revolutionist in the American Revolution who created his own type of law against loyalists.
=> often used to terrorise and control black people

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National Association for the Advancement of Colored People

created in 1909 by interracial group of W.E.B Du Bois, Ida Bell Wells-Barnett, Mary White Ovington, and others

Organisation for abolition of segregation and discrimination in: housing, education, voting, transportation

actions focused on national issues like persuading President Woodrow Wilson to denounce lynching in 1918

1910 published magazine called “The Crisis” ; one article in 1916 by Du Bois “The Waco Horror” featuring the Lynching of Jesse Washington

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sentenced to death without trial

torture, mutilation, desecration

being burned alive

hanged (on trees)

=> Anthony, Ethel & Martin, Jesse

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Images were put on postcards

Distribution and advertisement through mail

Public spectacle very often

false accusations (murder, rape, etc.)

no records of freedom trail (from the book)

nothing similar to Friday festival (with performances)

=> reality

2/3 lynchings throughout whole story

No postcards/advertisement mentioned

mainly lynched because they tried to escape

=> book

==>lynchings in book were exaggerated but “less” than in reality

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Between 1882 and 1951: 4730 persons were lynched

1,293 were white and 3,437 were black

During the 1950s and 1960s lynching continued when civil right workers were threatened and killed

In March 2022 the US Congress declared lynching as a hate crime