Lynching and mob violence
Articles on Lynching and mob violence from The Crisis (1910-1934)
Lynching and mob violence (17 articles)
Articles on Lynching and mob violence from The Crisis (1910-1934)
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| Date | Title | Description |
|---|---|---|
| 1911 (Apr) | Hail, Columbia! | Rebukes America’s leaders for silence as lynchmob violence, racial prejudice and lawlessness imperil democracy. |
| 1911 (Jun) | Jesus Christ in Georgia | Exposes how convict labor and mob violence reveal white supremacy, morally indicting racism and offering redemption. |
| 1912 (Jun) | The Election | Defends Black support for Wilson, warns of Southern racism and disfranchisement, and urges real justice and democracy. |
| 1913 (Apr) | The Church and the Negro | Faults the church for promoting racial injustice, exposing Christian hypocrisy and urging labor, education, moral reform. |
| 1913 (Jun) | Logic | Argues race prejudice inevitably leads to disenfranchisement, lynching, and attacks on Black property and education. |
| 1913 (Jun) | The Strength of Segregation | Warns segregation will forge Black racial unity and strength, undermining white supremacy and reshaping American democracy. |
| 1914 (Mar) | Lynching | Exposes how suppressed reporting masks lynching’s rise, documenting race-based violence and challenging ineffective reforms. |
| 1914 (Jun) | The Christmas Prayers of God | Condemns war, imperial exploitation, racial violence and lynching, pleading to God for justice and mercy. |
| 1915 (Jun) | Haiti | Exposes U.S. intervention in Haiti as racial domination, linking State Dept. policy to lynching and white supremacy. |
| 1916 (Jun) | Deception | Exposes how the southern press racially deceives readers, false-equating North and South and blocking justice. |
| 1917 (Mar) | Awake America | Urges America to end lynching, disenfranchisement and Jim Crow at home to honestly defend democracy abroad. |
| 1917 (Mar) | The Massacre in East St. Louis | Documents the East St. Louis massacre, linking racial terror to labor conflict and failures of democracy and law. |
| 1917 (Jun) | The Migration of Negroes | Documents Black migration as a labor and rights exodus driven by lynching, disfranchisement, boll weevil and low wages. |
| 1918 (Feb) | The Burning at Dyersburg: An N.A.A.C.P. Investigation | N.A.A.C.P. in The Crisis (1918) examines the burning at Dyersburg, exposing the lynching of Lation Scott and local failures of justice. |
| 1919 (Mar) | The Riots: An N.A.A.C.P. Investigation | Johnson, James Weldon in The Crisis (1919) examines the Washington race riots, documenting mob violence and Black residents’ determined self-defense. |
| 1919 (Mar) | Signs from the South | Documents Southern racial violence against Black churches and schools and argues true democracy must include Black citizens. |
| 1919 (Jun) | The Gospel According to Mary Brown | Retells Mary Brown’s parable to condemn racial violence and lynching, tying religious faith to labor and injustice. |
| 1920 (Jan) | The Macon Telegraph | Rebukes the Macon Telegraph, arguing racial injustice—lynching, disfranchisement, unequal education—drives Southern unrest. |
| 1920 (Mar) | Information Wanted | Demands to know if Black leaders aided Arkansas’ racial injustice—probing race, justice, and leadership betrayal. |
| 1920 (Dec) | Pontius Pilate | Casts Pilate as complicit in racial injustice, condemning lynching and white supremacy’s mockery of justice. |
| 1921 (Jan) | Votes for Negroes | Denounces Bourbon South racism and urges Black enfranchisement as the cornerstone of democracy against lynching. |
| 1921 (Jan) | The Negro and Radical Thought | Urges Negro emancipation and labor solidarity at home, warning against uncritical embrace of Russian socialism. |
| 1921 (Jan) | Tulsa Riots | National Association for the Advancement of Colored People in The Crisis (1921) examines the Tulsa race riot, white arson, peonage and refugees. |
| 1921 (Feb) | The World and Us | Argues in The Crisis (1921) that U.S. race caste, lynching, land monopoly and suppression of speech are pushing American democracy backward. |
| 1921 (Jun) | The Rising Truth | Exposes southern racial terror and white hypocrisy and insists education and the ballot are crucial for democracy. |
| 1924 (Mar) | The N.A.A.C.P. and Parties | Condemns party patronage, urges Black voters to defend democracy, and promotes nonpartisan debate on race. |
| 1926 (Jun) | The Shambles of South Carolina | White, Walter in The Crisis (1926) examines the brutal lynching of the Lowman family and Southern mob terror. |
| 1927 (Feb) | Optimism | Rejects naive optimism, celebrates Black self-assertion in race, education, labor, arts, and legal progress. |
| 1927 (Jul) | Coffeeville, Kanasas | Exposes racist mob violence in Coffeeville, Kansas, false rape accusations, Black self-defense, and justice failures. |
| 1927 (Jul) | Flood | Urges Black refugees to flee Southern racial terror—documenting lynching, exploitative relief, and labor coercion. |
| 1928 (Mar) | Robert E. Lee | Argues in The Crisis (1928) that commemorating Robert E. Lee masks his role in upholding slavery, urging moral honesty about race and democracy. |
| 1928 (Dec) | The Campaign of 1928 | Condemns both parties’ betrayal of Black voters and urges a Third Party for racial justice, labor rights and democracy. |
| 1929 (May) | The Negro Citizen | Argues that Black political power—secure voting rights—is essential to democracy, education, labor and racial justice. |
| 1931 (Apr) | Woofterism | Condemns Woofter’s study for ignoring race, disenfranchisement, lynching and labor barriers, urging political power. |
| 1933 (Feb) | Dodging the Issue | Attacks calls for nonresistance, blaming Southern mob violence and economic power for racial injustice. |
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