Black History Month Post #1: "Did You Know? (Anti-Lynching Efforts)

[Hissyspit]

Every day for the rest of February, I plan to post, contingent on anyone showing interest, some form of interesting information regarding African American history.

Anti-Lynching Efforts

"On July 28, 1917, thousands of African Americans silently marched through New York City to Madison Square to protest lynching and the E. St. Louis race riots... In the early 1920s, the NAACP launched a campaign to enact an anti-lynching law. In 1921 REp. C.C. Dyer of Missouri introduced an anti-lynching bill that passed the House by a vote of 239-119. Passage in the Senate, however, was much more difficult to attain. The NAACP sent the Senate a letter urging passage that was signed by 24 governors, 39 mayors, 20 college presidents... Full-page ads were also placed in leading newspapers such as the New York Times and the Atlanta Constitution. Southern senators, however, successfully filibustered the bill and it never came to a vote."

"At its headquarters, 69 Fifth Avenue, New York City, the NAACP flew a flag to report lynchings, until, in 1938, the threat of losing its lease forced the association to discontinue the practice."

A Man Was Lynched Yesterday
Flag flying above Fifth Avenue, New York City, ca. 1938. Copyprint.
NAACP Collection, Prints and Photographs Division.
Reproduction Number: LC-USZC4-4734/LC-USZ62-33793 (6-10b) Courtesy of the NAACP.

SOURCES:
http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/aaohtml/exhibit/aopart6b.html
"1001 Things Everyone Should Know About African American History" Jeffrey C. Stewart, Gramercy Books, New York; 1996

[EFerrari]

1. What an amazing picture. Thanks, Hissyspit.

:kick:

[Tierra_y_Libertad]

2. America's knowledge of Black History is abysmal. Thanks for the effort.

I've been studying black history for years. The available sources are massive, but ignored by almost everyone, and shrugged off as "old news". As if the problems faced today by African-Americans sprang out of nowhere.

I applaud your efforts.

[EFerrari]

3. People really have no grasp of how interrelated we are or

or clear notiong that the world wasn't created yesterday.

Please keep posting. I'll be happy to look for the thread and kick.

:hi:

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[Hissyspit]

9. Darn, I missed it!

:P

[Tim4319]

5. I am willing to learn more and more about my black history.

I am currently working with some kids, in a behavioral school that is predominantly black. They could careless about the plight of our ancestors. So, every chance I get, I try to learn new things and pass that information on to them. I hope it make a change in at least one of the students.

[Hissyspit]

8. I am going to pick a variety of stuff to put up so keep an eye out for it.

[alfredo]

6. Kick and recommend

[Hissyspit]

7. kick

[Lars39]

10. Thank you, Hissyspit.

Please post more. :hi:

[JeffR]

11. K&R

:toast:

[phusion]

12. thanks!

This is important history.

:kick:

[Catherine Vincent]

13. Thank you Hissyspit.

I look forward to your daily posts on AA history. :-)

[cassandra uprising]

14. The American phenomenon of lynching *graphic*

What other country murders and terrorizes it's own civilians for entertainment during a time of peace?

Participants would take photos and send them out as postcards

http://www.maafa.org/show.html

And made necklaces out of the victums' fingers. I can't find the source. It's one of the several things I learned in an African-American history course that I took as an elective in college. This history should be mandatory education for everyone! :banghead:


edit; thank you for posting this

[Wilms]

15. K&R n/t

[NMMNG]

16. Important post Hissyspit

"At its headquarters, 69 Fifth Avenue, New York City, the NAACP flew a flag to report lynchings, until, in 1938, the threat of losing its lease forced the association to discontinue the practice."

As with the Administration and others in our current time, some people just can't handle the truth, so they choose to suppress it. :-(