Lynching
W.E.B. Du Bois documented lynching with relentless detail, exposing it as a tool of racial terror rather than a response to crime.
Lynching (72 articles)
W.E.B. Du Bois documented lynching with relentless detail, exposing it as a tool of racial terror rather than a response to crime.
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| Date | Title | Description |
|---|---|---|
| 1911 (Jan) | The Old Story | W.E.B. Du Bois in The Crisis (1911) exposes how racial prejudice fuels false criminal accusations, lynch mobs, and unjust legal imprisonment. |
| 1911 (Jan) | The Flag | In a 1911 Crisis piece, W.E.B. Du Bois condemns States’ rights as shielding racial terror—arguing federal action is needed to protect Black citizens. |
| 1911 (Mar) | Triumph | In a 1911 Crisis piece, W.E.B. Du Bois condemns lynching and white‑supremacist mob violence, urging Black resistance for justice and democracy. |
| 1911 (Mar) | The World in Council | In 1911 W.E.B. Du Bois in The Crisis praises the First Universal Races Congress as a moral victory for race equality and condemns U.S. racial policy. |
| 1911 (Apr) | Mr. Taft | 1911: W.E.B. Du Bois in The Crisis condemns Taft’s race policies, rejecting Southern guardianship over Black education, voting rights and justice. |
| 1911 (Jun) | Starvation and Prejudice | 1911 W.E.B. Du Bois in The Crisis argues Washington’s minimization of Southern race wrongs lets prejudice, lynching and disfranchisement threaten democracy. |
| 1911 (Jun) | Christmas Gift | W.E.B. Du Bois, in The Crisis (1911), calls the 1911 vote a Christmas gift for Black voters, detailing disenfranchisement battles and political leverage. |
| 1911 (Jun) | The Sin Against the Holy Ghost | W.E.B. Du Bois, in The Crisis (1911), argues deceit for political gain is the unforgivable sin, corroding Black humanity, race dignity, and democracy. |
| 1912 (Jan) | Crime and Lynching | W.E.B. Du Bois argues in The Crisis (1912) that lynching provokes crime; stop lynching to stop crime, a humane critique grounded in Florida and vagrancy abuses. |
| 1912 (Feb) | The Gall of Bitterness | W.E.B. Du Bois argues in The Crisis (Feb. 1912) that bitter truth, not sugarcoated wit, reveals racial antagonism, combats lynching myths, and demands justice. |
| 1912 (Mar) | Divine Right | W. E. B. Du Bois, The Crisis (1912) exposes racist divine-right myths, condemns lynching, and challenges white prerogatives in a provocative crisis-era argument |
| 1913 (Jan) | The Newest South | In 1913 W.E.B. Du Bois in The Crisis lauds the newest South where interracial leaders openly confront race problems and denounces the old South’s racist press. |
| 1913 (Feb) | Burleson | 1913 W.E.B. Du Bois in The Crisis condemns Burleson’s push to segregate the federal civil service, links race exclusion to lynching, and urges action. |
| 1913 (Mar) | The Fruit of the Tree | W.E.B. Du Bois in The Crisis (1913) condemns rhetoric of Black subservience as causing disenfranchisement, segregation and lynching, and calls for resistance. |
| 1913 (Apr) | The Hurt Hound | W.E.B. Du Bois in The Crisis (1913) condemns racial degradation, arguing racism twists Black dignity so mere decency feels like ecstatic relief. |
| 1913 (Jun) | Education | W.E.B. Du Bois in The Crisis (1913) warns democracy is at risk unless lynching, disfranchisement and racial discrimination are confronted. |
| 1914 (Feb) | Votes for Women | 1914: W.E.B. Du Bois in The Crisis argues Black support for women’s suffrage strengthens democracy, challenges racial disfranchisement, and advances justice. |
| 1914 (Mar) | Lynching | In 1914 The Crisis, W.E.B. Du Bois exposes how suppressed reporting masks lynching’s rise, documenting race-based violence and challenging ineffective reforms. |
| 1915 (Feb) | Frank | In The Crisis (1915), W.E.B. Du Bois condemns Southern racial and religious prejudice and the legal failures that nearly led to Leo Frank’s lynching. |
| 1915 (Mar) | Preparedness | W.E.B. Du Bois in The Crisis (1915) argues that true national preparedness requires ending lynching and securing racial justice under law. |
| 1915 (Apr) | Hayti | In 1915 The Crisis W.E.B. Du Bois condemns U.S. intervention in Hayti as racist imperialism, calling citizens to protest and defend sovereignty. |
| 1915 (Jun) | An Open Letter | W.E.B. Du Bois in The Crisis (1915) charges Southern race policy with lynching, disenfranchisement, schooling and labor exclusion and demands organized justice. |
| 1916 (Feb) | Carrizal | In The Crisis (1916), W.E.B. Du Bois condemns U.S. racism: Carrizal’s Black soldiers’ sacrifice exposes hypocrisy—honored in death, denied rights in life. |
| 1916 (Apr) | Migration | In 1916 W.E.B. Du Bois in The Crisis urges Black southerners to migrate North to escape lynching, gain education and labor opportunities. |
| 1916 (May) | Southern Civilization | In 1916 The Crisis, W.E.B. Du Bois condemns Southern oligarchy for lynching, disfranchisement, and opposing national suffrage to preserve white supremacy. |
| 1917 (Jan) | Justice | In 1917 The Crisis, W.E.B. Du Bois condemns the Justice Department’s racial hypocrisy, ignoring lynching and disfranchisement while policing alleged German plots. |
| 1917 (Mar) | Civilization in the South | W.E.B. Du Bois in The Crisis (1917) condemns Southern culture as entwined with lynching, racist labor hierarchies, and anti-democratic barbarism. |
| 1917 (Mar) | The Tuskegee Resolutions | In 1917’s The Crisis, W.E.B. Du Bois denounces Tuskegee resolutions for urging Black labor to remain South while ignoring lynching and legal injustice. |
| 1917 (Mar) | The Negro Silent Parade | W.E.B. Du Bois in The Crisis (1917) documents the Negro Silent Parade, a mass silent protest against race riots, lynching, and injustice. |
| 1917 (May) | A Moral Void | W.E.B. Du Bois in The Crisis (1917) condemns Southern moral failure as governors ignore anti-Black lynching, praising Ohio’s pursuit of justice. |
| 1918 (Feb) | Help Us to Help | W.E.B. Du Bois in The Crisis (1918) urges redress of racial grievances—better travel, equal aid, suppression of lynching, securing democracy and war loyalty. |
| 1918 (Mar) | The Work of a Mob | In The Crisis (1918) W.E.B. Du Bois documents brutal lynchings in Georgia, exposing racial terror and its assault on Black democracy and life. |
| 1918 (Apr) | Houston and East St. Louis | In 1918 The Crisis, W.E.B. Du Bois documents racial massacres in Houston and East St. Louis, exposing deadly injustice and unequal legal treatment. |
| 1919 (Mar) | Let us Reason Together | In 1919 The Crisis, W.E.B. Du Bois urges Black self-defense against lynching while warning against vengeful violence to uphold law, honor, and democracy. |
| 1919 (Apr) | Byrnes | W.E.B. Du Bois in The Crisis (1919) condemns Rep. Byrnes for defending disenfranchisement and white supremacist violence, urging legal action |
| 1919 (Apr) | The Riot at Longview, Texas | In a 1919 The Crisis article, W.E.B. Du Bois documents the Longview, Texas race riot, exposing white violence and Black self-defense amid lawlessness. |
| 1919 (May) | Returning Soldiers | W.E.B. Du Bois in The Crisis (1919) returns from war to demand racial justice, condemning lynching, disenfranchisement, and economic theft. |
| 1919 (May) | A Statement | W.E.B. Du Bois in The Crisis (1919) declares a critical racial moment, urging lawful resistance, NAACP organizing, and a fight against Jim Crow. |
| 1920 (Jan) | Sex Equality | In 1920 The Crisis, W.E.B. Du Bois denounces AG Palmer for calling interracial marriage “sex equality,” exposes hypocrisy and defends Black rights to marry. |
| 1920 (Feb) | The House of Jacob | W.E.B. Du Bois in The Crisis (1920) denounces Southern racial lawlessness—lynching, disfranchisement, failing schools and child labor that betray democracy. |
| 1920 (Mar) | Dives, Mob, and Scab | W.E.B. Du Bois in The Crisis (1920) indicts industrialists and racist labor practices for driving Black workers to scab, lynching, and class conflict. |
| 1920 (Mar) | How Shall We Vote | In The Crisis 1920, W.E.B. Du Bois warns GOP and Democrats uphold Jim Crow; urges Black voters to elect congressional allies to defend race and democracy. |
| 1920 (Mar) | Murder Will Out | In 1920 in The Crisis, W.E.B. Du Bois exposes how Southern race and class power undermine labor and democracy, exploiting both Black and white workers. |
| 1920 (Apr) | Southern Representatives | In 1920 The Crisis, W.E.B. Du Bois urges Republicans to cut Southern representation to punish Jim Crow disenfranchisement and defend Black voting. |
| 1921 (Feb) | Lynchings and Mobs | W.E.B. Du Bois in The Crisis (1921) exposes how southern police, courts and press enforce racial terror—lynching, mob rule, and denial of justice. |
| 1921 (Feb) | The Lynching Bill | In The Crisis (1921), W.E.B. Du Bois condemns lynching as wholesale murder, urging federal action to defend law, democracy, and Black lives. |
| 1921 (Feb) | Vicious Provisions of a Great Bill | W.E.B. Du Bois in The Crisis (1921) lambasts a federal education bill that would cement racial schooling inequity and encourage lynching and peonage. |
| 1921 (Mar) | About Pugilists | In 1921 W.E.B. Du Bois in The Crisis exposes racial hypocrisy in boxing—condemning outrage at Jack Johnson while lynching goes unprotested. |
| 1921 (Mar) | Boddy | W.E.B. Du Bois in The Crisis (1921) indicts society for producing a young Black murderer—race, policing, war training and failed education at fault. |
| 1921 (Apr) | The Liberal South | In 1921 The Crisis W.E.B. Du Bois challenges the liberal South and urges white leaders to secure Black rights: vote, end Jim‑Crow travel, education, lynching. |
| 1921 (Jun) | Crime | W.E.B. Du Bois in The Crisis (1921) rejects the myth of Negro crime, cites poverty, ignorance, unjust courts, and urges reforms in labor, schools, justice. |
| 1922 (Feb) | Advertising | 1922: W.E.B. Du Bois in The Crisis argues modern advertising can mobilize indifferent white readers to expose lynching, advancing racial justice and democracy. |
| 1922 (May) | K.K.K. | In 1922, W.E.B. Du Bois in The Crisis condemns the KKK as cowardly, racist, and lawless, urging the white South to defend democracy and Black rights. |
| 1923 (Jan) | Intentions | W.E.B. Du Bois in The Crisis (1923) condemns partisan betrayal over the Dyer anti‑lynching bill and urges Black political power, sustained fight for democracy. |
| 1923 (Jun) | A University Course in Lynching | In 1923 W.E.B. Du Bois in The Crisis condemns university ‘courses’ that normalize lynching, exposing racial injustice and corruption of American education. |
| 1924 (May) | Fall Books | W.E.B. Du Bois in The Crisis (1924) reviews fall books, indicting the Southern oligarchy, lynching, and disfranchisement while championing race, democracy, and education |
| 1926 (Feb) | The Newer South | In The Crisis (1926), W.E.B. Du Bois critiques the New South’s Jim Crow, lynching, and educational neglect while urging white Southerners to join racial justice. |
| 1926 (May) | Lynching | W.E.B. Du Bois argues in The Crisis (1926) that lynching endures, urges Congress to pass the Dyer Anti-Lynching Bill, and reveals racial injustice. |
| 1926 (Jun) | The Shambles of South Carolina | W.E.B. Du Bois in The Crisis (1926) exposes lynching, Klan violence and legal failure in South Carolina, arguing racial terror corrodes democracy. |
| 1927 (Feb) | Lynching | W.E.B. Du Bois in The Crisis (1927) denounces 1926’s surge in lynching, arguing failed local justice demands federal action to protect Black life and democracy. |
| 1927 (Mar) | Aiken | W.E.B. Du Bois in The Crisis (1927) condemns Aiken’s lynchocracy: Klan rule, racial violence, and democratic failure with officials complicit. |
| 1927 (Apr) | The Higher Friction | W.E.B. Du Bois in The Crisis (1927) argues racial friction moves up to higher stakes—voting, education, lynching, housing—measuring uneven Black progress. |
| 1927 (Jul) | Flood | In 1927 The Crisis, W.E.B. Du Bois urges Black refugees to flee Southern racial terror—documenting lynching, exploitative relief, and labor coercion. |
| 1927 (Aug) | Mob Tactics | W.E.B. Du Bois in The Crisis (1927) exposes mob tactics: police and mobs criminalize Black Americans, undermine democracy, and urges armed self‑defense. |
| 1928 (Sep) | Houston | W.E.B. Du Bois, writing for The Crisis (1928), shows the Democratic Party weaponizing race to suppress Black voters, exposing Jim-Crow politics and corruption. |
| 1928 (Sep) | Lynching | W.E.B. Du Bois in The Crisis (1928) exposes lynching as a political crime, showing a Florida photograph that reveals white supremacy and state violence. |
| 1930 (Jan) | About Wailing | W.E.B. Du Bois in The Crisis (1930) defends continued ‘wailing’—documenting racial injustice, disfranchisement, poverty, and exclusion despite surface progress. |
| 1931 (Apr) | Causes of Lynching | W.E.B. Du Bois in The Crisis (1931) links lynching to ignorance, economic exploitation, political exclusion, religious intolerance, and sexual prejudice. |
| 1932 (Feb) | Lynchings | W.E.B. Du Bois in The Crisis (1932) exposes lynching as racial caste violence that thrives on denied education, economic oppression, and lack of human rights. |
| 1933 (Dec) | Too Rich to be a Nigger | In 1933 W.E.B. Du Bois in The Crisis documents how white backlash to Black education and prosperity culminated in lynching, exposing racial terror. |
| 1934 (Jan) | Scottsboro | W.E.B. Du Bois in The Crisis (1934) condemns Scottsboro trials as racial injustice — Southern courts using law to punish Black lives for profit and prejudice. |
| 1934 (May) | Grand Jury Adjourns: Laurens County Fails to Indict Dendy Lynchers | W.E.B. Du Bois in The Crisis (1934) exposes how Laurens County’s grand jury shields a white mob in the Norris Dendy lynching, revealing racial injustice and impunity. |
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