March 4, 2010

What makes someone

willing to make a stand
against wrongdoing?
What made people like
Martin Luther King do
what they did?
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Lynching
Extrajudicial
punishment carried
out by a mob, usually
by hanging in order to
intimidate, control, or
otherwise manipulate
a population of
people, however large
or small
 Lynching
Nearly 5,000 African
Americans were
lynched in the United
States between 1860
and 1890
There have been
reported Lynchings as
recently as 10 years
ago
Lynchings
Between 1882 and
1968, the Tuskegee
Institute recorded
1,293 lynchings of
whites. In this
category were
minority members
such as Chinese and
Mexicans
 Lynchings
Tuskegee Institute
records of lynchings
between the years
1880 and 1951 show
3,437 African-
American victims, as
well as 1,293 white
victims
After the 1960s
lynchings became
rare
In 1920, nine
African Duluth Lynchings
American
carnival workers
were arrested on
charges of rape
Three were
taken from the
jail and killed
Ida B. Wells Barnett
July 16, 1862 – March 25,
1931
Parents were slaves
Went to Freedmens
school Shaw University,
now Rust College, in
Mississippi
Parents died when she
was 16 of yellow fever
She supported her family
after that
 Ida B. Wells Barnett
Was a teacher
The fact that white
teachers were making
$80 a month when
she was only making
$30 bothered her and
started her on her
career working for
social justice
Ida B. Wells Barnett
May 4, 1884
Wells Barnett refused
to give up her seat on
a segregated railroad
car
She fought the men
who tried to remove
her
She sued and lost
More later