Between 1865 and 1900 farmers, African Americans, and businesspeople were affected by conditions such as poverty, prejudice, and pride. Farmers were greatly affected by poverty from the unfair pricing of railroads (Proceedings). African Americans struggled with prejudice, as the lynch law came into play (Wells). And, (some) businesspeople dealt with the pride of thinking that their job and type of work was more important (Supreme Court Cases on Granger Laws). Life as a farmer in the later 1800’s was not easy. Farming was “…rapidly extinguishing all debts and restoring an equilibrium to the currency of the country…” (Proceedings). But, for the farmer as a person, life was incredibly difficult. Farmers were often treated as less-than citizens and were harmed by the overpriced elements of the railroad. In a summary of Grange’s national meeting farmers were described as “…toiling laborers [who] are humiliated in their poverty” (Proceedings). The injustice shown to farmers resulted in the creation of the Grange organization which took cases to court and convinced federal government laws to be made to protect them. In 1886 the farmers finally found themselves victorious when they won in …show more content…
In the later 1800’s and early 1900’s the lynch law was created. The phrase lynch law “…refers to instances in which mobs, not juries, would decide whether people who have been accused of crimes were guilty (Wells). These mobs had the “…right to sentence people and execute them, usually by hanging” (Wells). Between 1882 and 1900 over 3,000 people were and a majority of them were African Americans living in the South. African Americans were lynched for a variety of reasons including prevention of negro domination, engaging in a fight with a white man, not exposing the hiding places of wanted relatives, and all other offenses “…from murders to misdemeanors…” (Wells). Their lives were taken publicly and
In the 1930’s, our economy took a major downturn when the stock market crashed on Black Tuesday in October of 1929, which affected many Americans in every aspect, including a rise in the unemployment rate. This resulted in farmers migrating from Oklahoma to California, as we see in The Grapes of Wrath when Tod Joad and his family take on this journey. Although the Great Depression lasted between 1929 and 1939, the people had hope in the restoration of the economy when Roosevelt came into office in 1933. He proposed the New Plan guaranteeing security in the economy. Unfortunately, it was not much help with the onset of the Dust Bowl during these tragic times.
Ida B. Wells wrote this document as a result of the lynchings of Thomas Moss, Calvin McDowell, and Henry Stewart, and this case was significant to Miss Wells because she personally knew the victims. These colored men owned and operated a successful grocery store in an area that had a competing grocery store owned by a white man. Due to the economic tension between the two stores, a white band caused a stir and had over one hundred black men dragged into jail on suspicion. Moss, McDowell, and Stewart were charged of raping white women. Because of these accusations, these black men were lynched.
Farmers in the Shay’s Rebellion were treated unfairly . Although the farmers in Shay’s Rebellion were considered reckless rebels, nevertheless they should be recognized as freedom fighters because they fought for things to be fair, they protested for people’s rights to be better, and they fought for what they thought was right. First of all, the farmers fought for things to be fair because many things were not fair to them and to others . According to class notes, “Farmers were losing land and going to jail,” this shows that they were treated unfairly and they were getting punished for doing nothing.
Journalist Ida Wells wanted government to provide protection to the people who clearly could not protect themselves. Lynching at one time seemed okay since no federal law was in place to end these horrific practices. African Americans became a target even after they were freed slaves and she wanted the government to know that this was not acceptable behavior and something needed to be done. There was a need for anti-lynching
On December 11, 1934, members of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People protested against lynching in Washington, D.C. Most of the victims of lynching were blacks. The justification for lynching was the accusation of rape or sexual assault of a white woman by a black man. However, the lynching of the blacks during the era of slavery was infrequent. “Chapter 5: 'Fearsome Reminders of Their Status': The Crusade Against Lynching.
The Lynch Laws The 1780 Lynch Laws’, it states that punishment, torture and even, death like hanging. They get convicted by being in mob related crimes and doing other stuff anything like that without legal process or authority. It was named after Charles Lynch for being a loyalist during the american war. Was later printed on a federal document in the later 1700’s.
On the report of Tiana Mobley, a writer for the White House asserts that, “A lynching is the public killing of an individual who has not received any due process. These executions were often carried out by lawless mobs, though police officers did participate, under the pretext of justice”(“Ida B. Wells Lynch Law in All Its Phases - ). Lynching was an act based on the hate and urge to control the colored people during the 20th century. Lynching always resulted in hanging, rape, and even being burnt alive. From the late 1800’s to the mid 1900’s lynching was mainly done to the black community just to terrorize and unequal them from the world.
From 1889 to 1918 African Americans were burned at the stake or hanged. They would be accused of crimes, for example murder. Lynchings weren 't in secret, they were published in the papers or by word of mouth to the public in advanced. To some it was entertainment, and body parts of the African American were sold to bystanders. Photographers record what happens at the lynchings and sold photos.
The Carolina Times is a newspaper founded by Charles Arrant in 1921. After his death in 1922, the paper would be taken over by Louis Austin and renamed The Carolina Times. The paper became very important in giving a voice to African-Americans and the issues that they faced. It not only highlighted issues of racism and discrimination in North Carolina, but also throughout the United States. The paper is still in business today, as the grandson of Austin, Kenneth Edmonds, is now continuing it.
Farmers in the West, both before and as the Depression hit, frivolously worked to farm their land and produce as much agriculture as possible, aiming to fulfil their duty as a “proper” American citizen in fulfilling their role as a hard and productive worker. The ideas of hard work ultimately led to over-working the American farmland in the western United States. As the overworked land was uprooted, displacing these farmers, the ideas of a strenuous American work ethic continued to remain in the minds of these
Although the African American vote did not really matter, it was still the principle of them having that right that upset the white man. Some of the crimes that resulted in lynching were rape, arson, murder, and robbery. The crimes that could result in lynching started out simply regarding to lynching for rape or any form of disrespect towards a white woman or child. Then, the reasoning would change to make the lynching fit whatever condition was happening. One of the saddest discoveries from reading was that some people were lynched for no reason at all.
In the poem titled, The Lynching writer Claude McKay is his angriest. It is implied that Mckay is angry when he said, “the women thronged to look, but never a one showed sorrow in her eyes of steely blue… And little lads lynchers that were to be.” (2111) Mckay emphasized that he did not like lynching and did not like that it was considered entertainment. Aside from Mckay not being pleased with lynching being entertainment, he was dissatisfied with children and women being able to witness the lynching’s.
During the Postbellum and Reconstruction period, lynching by groups of whites became a way to spread fear and maintain the socioeconomic and political disparities between the races and control the racial order. African American men, women and children were the majority of victims who were lynched and in the South, lynching was commonplace. The image of an angry white mob stringing a black man up a tree was a popular in newspapers and often announced to ensure it would become large public event. People would arrive from miles around to view the spectacle, which would have a carnival atmosphere, with souvenir sellers, picnic lunches and many white observers would pose for pictures next to the victim which would be generated into postcards to
The lynching of enslaved people during the 1800’s came from Charles Lynch, the founder of Lynchburg, Virginia. The term "lynch" first came to be associated with vigilante "justice" when linked to Revolutionary War militia officer and farmer Charles Lynch of Bedford County, on Virginia 's western frontier. Colonel Lynch controlled an extralegal military court that sentenced suspected Tories and Tory sympathizers to punishments of "tar and feathering," flogging, and, in extreme cases, hanging to death from a walnut tree standing in his yard. After the Revolutionary War, Lynch was cleared for his wartime activities by Virginia 's lawmakers. The “Lynch Law” as some would call it would be placed onto people to show an example to scare other slaves so that they would not try to go against the law and especially not run away.
In the novel “In Dubious Battle”, It was a more so culmination of events such as the lowering of wages, unsafe equipment and unsanitary living conditions which finally motivated the workers to use their power to strike, hich immediately took place after World War One. In this time the Great Depression was turning its head in, in what turned out to be the worst economic downfall in U.S history. The stock markets were falling and unemployment rates were skyrocketing through the roof. At first the working class allowed the growers to have absolute power because they provided them jobs.