Sentences with phrase «lynching during»

Additionally, AZ's Tracking Ida, recipient of the Best Gameplay award, educates players on Ida B. Wells's investigative journalism surrounding lynching during the 1890s.

For example, overt discrimination led to approximately 5,500 African Americans being lynched during a 50 - year time period, 1890 - 1940.

As the granddaughter of a black farmer who was forced to leave Mississippi lest he be lynched during the tumultuous history of segregation in the United States, I have to agree with Ann.

Not exact matches

One pro-lynching activist, speaking in 1897 during the heyday of lynching — an extrajudicial form of capital punishment — was more explicit: «If it takes lynching to protect woman's dearest possession from drunken, ravening human beasts... then I say lynch a thousand a week if it becomes necessary.»

During our conversation, he spent more time decrying rioting and calling for calm and prayer than lamenting the modern - day lynching by law enforcement of innocent black bodies that are piling up across the nation.

That Patterson recognizes this in his second chapter, where he reflects on how the difficulties of the South during the «transitional period» led to the activities of lynch mobs, makes even more striking his disinclination to extend this objectivity to African - American men.

«I will repeat this statement again, Captain Mahama's death was orchestrated by the President Nana Addo, he ordered the assemblyman to incite the Denkyiraboase residents to lynch the soldier who was preventing the residents from engaging in galamsey, that's the truth, if you attempt, to tell the truth, you become a target of the New Patriotic Party (NPP), they almost killed me at Talensi, during the by - elections years ago,» she alleged.

In reflecting on some of the more difficult moral choices made by the characters — Laura's decision to sleep with Jamie, Ronsel's decision to abandon Resl and return to America, Jamie's choice during the lynching scene, Florence's and Jamie's separate decisions to murder Pappy — what would you have done in those same situations?

Edwards never witnessed anything resembling a lynching, but the historical circumstances and facts surrounding this legacy of racism were a frequent topic in discussions during the early time of the civil rights movement.

The tree, which has the graves of lynched victims around the base, features in the film, during a scene where two runaway slaves are hanged.