Sentences with phrase «of lynchings»

That same month, the Equal Justice Initiative will open a new museum of African - American history dedicated to educating people on the history and legacy of lynching in the U.S.

10:30 pm — TCM — Fury I haven't seen this one, but it's Fritz Lang directing a young Spencer Tracy in one of his breakout films as a victim of a lynch mob attack.

Till was the teenage victim of lynching in Mississippi in 1955, whose mutilated body was revealed in an open casket service as a symbol of injustice.

The organizers have not brushed over the history of lynching in broad strokes but rather have framed it with specific and harrowing details.

Learn about present - day initiatives to memorialize the history of lynching in the United States, including high school students in Memphis who took action to commemorate Persons.

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

The initiative's contribution to the show includes an interactive video display documenting (without the use of explicit photographs) thousands of lynchings of black Americans in the late 19th and early 20th centuries.

One of the lynch pins of the Department of Labor fiduciary rule is the Impartial Conduct Standards for fixed annuities and the Best Interest Contract for variable annuities (and mutual funds).

Rounding out the Social Realist offerings in a section of the show called «Fighting With All Our Might,» on the seventh floor, are several drawings of lynchings by artists including Paul Cadmus, Harry Sternberg, and Abraham Jacobs.

Hale Woodruff used an Expressionist style to convey the horror of lynching in the rural South.

The images will suggest those of postcards that were made from photographs of lynchings as common practice.

A March 16, 1891, editorial referred to the victims of the lynchings as ``... sneaking and cowardly Sicilians, the descendants of bandits and assassins.»

People mailed postcards of lynchings.

The saddest part of the lynch mob mentality currently on the prowl is that the «sudden critics» of Alhaji Atiku want to hold him to a different standard, separate from known measures used for others.

But the democrats from 1876 to 1960 were guilty of keeping in place state terrorism against blacks with constant threats of lynchings and human rights violations.

This lesson focuses on the historical context of lynching beginning in the years after the Civil War through the time period of the Emmett Till case.

Born into slavery, Ida B. Wells became an educator, author, and renowned civil rights activist who was instrumental in stopping the practice of lynching in the South.

Later, as Union soldiers, Thomas and John endure a ghastly battle in Virginia, are held prisoner in Georgia, and see a row of lynched blacks while traveling to Tennessee.

On view in a clear lacquer case, Kara Walker's laser - cut steel sculpture of a lynching scene has a particular emotional resonance.

''... Kara Walker's laser - cut steel sculpture of a lynching scene has a particular emotional resonance.»

Found in Louisiana while scouting locations for 12 Years a Slave (and ultimately featured in the film), the tree is surrounded by graves of those lynched there.

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.»

At the University of Oklahoma, a fraternity sang about the virtues of lynching.

There will be an element of sincerity (and also quite a bit of lynch mob) in all this.

Read the comment again — it says every Klansmen, member of a lynch mob etc considers / considered themselves Christian.

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.

Women and children cut off the ears of lynching victims as souvenirs.

This completely calls the bluff of the lynch death, enabling humans to be less driven by fear and the need to do such things.

When they hear the wrath of the lynch mob coming close, they run away.

He asserts that America is continuing to wage war, but with a different weapon — prisons — and that incarceration is a new form of lynching.

I think the terrorism which defined the era of lynching is devastating.

He is one of those people who deserve to be the target of a lynch mob.

The key problem this season apart from Arsene the loss of our lynch pin Cazorla.

I'm condemning judge, jury and executioner courtesy of the lynch mob... You or I don't know their relationship....

What or who is really at the center of this lynch mob mentality in our society?

Information gathered by us indicates that the wife of lynched military officer, Barbara Mahama is about to have another child for the late army officer.

It is important for you to know that now, it seems that the story is being repeated absent of the lynch mob.

«The laws would deal with anyone or group of persons found culpable of lynching or causing harm to suspected witches or wizards,» she warned.

He added: «Such is the changing nature of the world that we need to readjust to reclaim the system, and thereby the streets, for the decent majority.This is not the argument of the lynch mob, or of people who are indifferent to convicting the innocent, but it is simply a rational and reasonable answer to the problem.»

Provisional charge of murder has been preferred against the seven persons accused of lynching and burning a Ghanaian military officer.They have been remanded into Police custody to allow investigators delve into the case.

The seven, including an assembly member who is said to be the mastermind of the lynching and subsequent burning of a part Captain Maxwell Adam Mahama's body arrived at the Court premises at about 8:10 am Thursday amidst tight security.

Police found Sebastian Woodroffe's body after video of his lynching on Friday was shared on social media, Peruvian prosecutors in Ucayali said.

Michael Vick after entering a guilty plea After he was named in a very - detailed, 84 - count Federal indictment for hosting dogfights in his home, for funding the entire operation, and for executing losing pit bulls by means of lynching, drowning, electrocution and body slams, MichaeI Vick retained a Dream Team of five, very high - priced attorneys, masterminded by Billy Martin, the same hired gun who recently represented former Dick Cheney hatchet man Scooter Libby.

The latter example actually delivers a more traditional dramatic treatment of many of «Mudbound's» themes, right down to the stomach - churning appearance of a lynch mob in Klan robes at the end.

was a protest song against the brutality of lynching and indicted racism in America, fueling the rise of the civil rights movement of the 1950's and 1960's.