Lynching was the worst kind of violence against blacks. Lynching was the murder if an accused person by a mob without a lawful trial. An estimated 1,200 African Americans were lynched between 1882 and 1892. Sometimes the victims were suspected criminals. Often they had merely overstepped their status as second class citizens or had shown too little respect to whites. Occasionally they were in financial competition with whites. After the African American owners of a Memphis, Tennessee, grocery store were lynched, Frederick Douglass said, "The men lynched at Memphis were murdered because they were prosperous." The fact that lynchings sometimes include a mock trial shows that their purpose was partly to set an example that would intimidate other African Americans. To add to the fear, lynching victims were sometimes mutilated before being hanged and riddled with bullets. Those who carried out these horrors were rarely pursued or caught, much less punished. Although most lynchings took place in the South, African Americans in the North were sometimes lynched as well.
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The principal public opponent of lynching during the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries was Ida B. Wells. An African American journalist and activist, Wells used her writing to expose the brutal realities of lynching and its racial motives. She conducted extensive investigations and published her findings, advocating for civil rights and social justice, and played a pivotal role in raising awareness about the injustices faced by African Americans in the United States.
It was done by lighting places like homes and churches on fire, lynching people, and shooting them.
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1967 Albert William Johnson is awarded the first dealership from a major automaker to an African American. He opens his Oldsmobile dealership in a predominantly African American neighborhood in Chicago.
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There were many horrible tactics used to intimidate African Americans and the non-African Americans who supported them. There were fiery crosses burned in yards, bricks thrown through windows, and people beaten.
Ku Klux Klan
Most lynching incidents occurred in the southern United States, particularly in states like Mississippi, Georgia, and Alabama. The practice of lynching was used as a form of racial intimidation and violence against African Americans during the late 19th and early 20th centuries.
One organization that has used violence within the U.S. is the Ku Klux Klan (KKK). They've used violent tactics to intimidate minorities, mostly African-Americans, from exercising their constitutional rights.
One organization that has used violence within the U.S. is the Ku Klux Klan (KKK). They've used violent tactics to intimidate minorities, mostly African-Americans, from exercising their constitutional rights.