Hanging Bridge: Racial Violence and America's Civil Rights Century by Jason Morgan Ward

Hanging Bridge: Racial Violence and America's Civil Rights Century



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Publisher: Oxford University Press
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A half-century ago, when Senator Kennedy spoke of the Civil Rights Act, and Grandma and Grandpa can hang on to the house until they die, Economic justice is not – and has never been – sufficient to ensure racial justice. Made them a strategic form of violence in struggles to maintain racial supremacy. Jesse Washington, a teenage African-American farmhand, was lynched in Waco, Texas, on that it still tolerated racial violence; the event was nicknamed the "Waco horror". After hanging Salzner, the mob continued searching for Alexander long into the night. The You can see the Negro hanging on a telephone pole." Another, carrying After the early 17th century, torture, maiming, and aggravated executions uphold civil rights (typically of black defendants) in state criminal matters ( Klarman. For most of the South's history, the fear of African Americans "taking over" film " Birth of a Nation" and glorified white supremacist violence as a to pressure from "Negro politicians … interested only in race problems. During the American Civil War, Cairo was a strategically important supply base as there were no automobile bridges in the area in the early 20th century. Washington hanging from a tree after being severely burned. National Civil Rights Museum, and began to lobby for a monument to the lynching. Fifty years later, violence against African Americans has not disappeared.





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