Monday, October 17, 2011

Factors explained from lynchings jrc

  In  the book"A Red Record by Ida B.Wells"  she uses and explains many factors that were created out of the lynchings of 1892-1894. One of those factors were "bear his burden" (Royster 78) which defined the oppression of African-Americans. Another keyword phrase that was mentioned was "Negro domination" (Royster 77) which  is the fear that white southerners had of a black person actually developing in a white ran society. In other words they feared African American dominance. Lastly there was a key word that Ida. B Wells explained which really ties of all these together and that was "Anarchy" (Royster 78) which is an absence of government, lawlessness and disorganization within a society. All of these became factors of the act of lynching towards African-Americans.

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