New details emerge on lynchings in Jim Crow South (700 MORE than previous found)

[steve2470]

http://america.aljazeera.com/articles/2015/2/10/new-report-on-lynchings-in-jim-crow-south.html

A new report from the Alabama-based Equal Justice Initiative (EJI) said its researchers have documented nearly 4,000 lynchings of African-Americans in 12 states during the Jim Crow era — about 700 more than previous comprehensive studies have found.

Titled “Lynching in America: Confronting the Legacy of Racial Terror,” the EJI report said 3,959 lynchings of African-Americans took place from 1877 – 1950 in states across the south: Alabama, Arkansas, Florida, Georgia, Kentucky, Louisiana, Mississippi, North Carolina, South Carolina, Tennessee, Texas and Virginia.

Jim Crow laws enforced racial segregation in the South between 1877, when Reconstruction ended, and the beginning of the civil rights movements of the 1950s. The disenfranchisement of African-Americans in the Jim Crow era was cemented by the widespread use of violent tactics, including lynchings.

“Racial terror lynching was a tool used to enforce Jim Crow laws and racial segregation — a tactic for maintaining racial control by victimizing the entire African-American community, not merely punishment of an alleged perpetrator for a crime,” the report said.

(xpost from GD)

[NoJusticeNoPeace]

1. But that was WAY back 65 years ago...Wait, that isnt that long ago, in fact some of the ones

who lynched innocent people are still alive.

Huh...does that mean the President was right to compare kreeeeeeeeeschuns to current issues in the ME?

Huh...does that mean maybe we have people walking around TODAY who would LOVE to lynch black folk?

[steve2470]

2. interesting, the GD post has ALREADY dropped off the front page

It's nice it got some recs though!

[Number23]

3. Surely, you're not surprised??

The last thing GD ever wants to talk about is race unless there is some way to blame conservatives/Christians/Southerners/the 1%/any group that the majority of GD'ers don't belong to for any and all racial animus in this country.

[steve2470]

4. no I'm not

I should have put "unsurprisingly, ..." I did expect that result.

[Number23]

5. Well I rec'd it. It's a great read and an incredibly important topic.

[steve2470]

6. thanks!