Sentences with phrase «lynchings took»

Many lynchings took place in the light of day, and often a town's most well - regarded white citizens were involved.

This includes the belief that lynchings took place in the dark of night, carried out by men covered in white sheets, a narrative that implies that lynchings were the work of extremists, and that they were distinctly Southern in nature — regional instead of national.

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.»

WASHINGTON — Rep. Elijah E. Cummings, the top - ranking Democrat on the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform, called for the head of AIG to resign over comments he made comparing outrage over executive bonuses to lynchings that took place...

The professor has an interesting take on this subject, but it will be a long time before the lynch mobs will come around to this type of thinking.

From that time on, executions took place within the confines of prisons — except for lynchings, which continued in some areas of the country without legal sanction.

Blacks looking at the images of lynching victims took heart from Jesus» suffering on the cross and his resurrection, Cone said.

He went up, John says, «not publicly, but almost in secret,» as if he wished to observe without being observed, taking the temperature of feeling in metropolitan circles.2 But «when the festival was already half over» he was moved to address the crowds in the temple.3 What he said so incensed them that he was in danger of being lynched.4 In the Fourth Gospel this episode is made, after John's manner, the setting for a whole series of dialogues and discourses which are evidently his own composition, though they contain undoubted reminiscences of earlier tradition, but there seems no valid reason to reject his statement that in September or October Jesus was in Jerusalem, and that the reception he met with finally convinced him — whatever premonitions he may previously have entertained — that any advance on the city would meet with implacable hostility.

Other sacrificers take the sheep without entering through the gate; robbers and thieves, they are not prepared to carry out the sacrificial lynching themselves, but pick off sheep for sacrifice from a safe distance.

It is important for you to know that there was a lynch mob, led by now Attorney General Eric Schneiderman, that took Hiram Monserrate to court where he was convicted of assaulting Karla Giraldo, and had him expelled from the New York State Senate.

The State House, where the funeral took place has been filled with tears from family, friends, statesmen and even people who never met the late military officer who was lynched at Denkyira - Obuasi last week Monday.

«Not only did the political lynch mob led by Eric T. Schneiderman, a Democrat, wait just days before the election to bring charges, he planned weeks ago to arrest Sen. Huntley at her home where news outlets could take pictures of her in handcuffs,» Evans wrote.

Earlier, Mr Carswell said he feared for his life after being surrounded by a «lynch mob» of anti-austerity protesters taking part in an anti-austerity protest.

Gen Sani Abacha took corruption fighting into the banking sector (as President Umaru Yar» Adua via CBN Governor Lamido Sanusi would do decades later) and earned the applause of Nigerians gradually accepting media lynching's as relief from the pain of successive abusive governments.

The South Carolina militias, portrayed in the film as a ragtag band of good - hearted family men, could be exceedingly ruthless, not just against British troops but with neighbors who refused to join them or take sides — the lynching of perceived loyalists and destruction of their homes was not uncommon.

Near the beginning of the film, after a grim montage of old newsreels and photos of southern black labor and lynching of blacks, a color fade takes us from archival footage of blacks exiting a New Orleans train to a shot of Junior alone with his suitcase in front of the station.

He's just as at home spending time with the gentle, loving family of the accused as he is in the raucous courtroom (where people show up drunk, take naps and generally wait for the lynching to begin).

They frequently took as their subject matter sexual violence against black women and lynching.

Another assumption is that there must have been some crime that caused the lynching to take place.

Collaborative enquiry should be the lynch pin of your CPD, as a CPD leader or senior leader you will study models and be able to take your expertise into any context, boosting pupil outcomes and improving teacher collaboration.

At the Brooklyn Museum she has championed curators who take an «anticolonial approach to curating» with exhibitions like «The Legacy of Lynching: Confronting Racial Terror in America» and «We Wanted a Revolution: Black Radical Women, 1965 — 85.»

Ken Gonzales documents a lynching, but with the victims taken out of the picture, leaving only the appalling crowd.

It was a public display, in the way that public lynchings used to take place as a warning sign and display of power and supremacy over people» (The Los Angeles Times).

As has been widely reported, Dana Schutz's painting Open Casket (2016) was immediately challenged by protestors who stood in front of it to block viewers» access along with a call to remove and destroy it.2 At issue is the appropriation by this white painter of the photo of the lynched - body of the black boy, Emmett Till, taken at his open - casket funeral held in Mississippi in 1955.

The Contemporary Arts Center, New Orleans has chosen to fly Dread Scott's flag, entitled A Man Was Lynched By Police Yesterday, as an acknowledgement of lives being taken in our communities, as an invitation to a public dialogue, and as a sign of hope that history can be articulated, transcended, and put in the service of education and healing.

Water supplies, transportation nodes and arteries, food supplies, and energy production and distribution facilities all represent lynch - pins that, if disrupted, can take down a city's ability to effectively function.

When it comes to high - tech lynchings, I never take anything at face value.

UDAAP has been a lynch pin in several recent enforcement actions taken by the CFPB, the U.S. Department of Justice, and other agencies.