Research Day in the library. At the end of the hour, make sure to post summarized information about what you found, and include links in case your classmates would like more information. Don't forget to cite your sources -- MLA format!
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Grant whitaker
White Women’s outlook on blacks • In the video we watched it showed how women had a huge part in how black men of the time were lynched • During the film it shows the white activist women groups walking down the streets with signs with statements that would accuse black men of rape, sexual cases , and other huge chimes. • They marched until they could get people to lynch the accused black men. • The serotypes in which the white women were trying to get the black men to be like were very dirty, mean, and careless law breaking people that should be hung. • Men could not handle the amount of justice • In 1892 Ida B. Wells a black reporter who was the first to raise a report on lynching, and its horrible truths to the main stream media. • “The Free Speech and Headlight, a Memphis newspaper that she co-edited. She urged the black townspeople of Memphis to move west and to resist the coercive violence of lynching.” (1) • The way that white men saw the amount of graphic lynching that was happing as a stage of manhood in which black men who had committed this perishable chime should be killed for it. • “Wells’ resistance to white male ideology influenced other leading black women of the time, such as Anna Julia Cooper, who was instrumental in organizing women to resist race and gender control. Cooper helped found the Colored Women’s Young Woman’s Christian Association (YWCA) in 1905.”
"A Historical Look at Lynching and Women: The Influence of Ida B. Wells." CU-Dillard Collaborative Curriculum Partnership(2004): 1. Web. 16 Nov 2009. "http://amath.colorado.edu/carnegie/lit/lynch/women.htm"
[8] From George Washington University’s webpage on Anna Julia Cooper, under the “Social Activism” section. "http://www.gwu.edu/~e73afram/be-nk-gbe.html" (1) When a respected black store owner and friend of Barnett (Wells) was lynched in 1892, Wells used her paper to attack the evils of lynching. Women in History "http://www.lkwdpl.org/wihohio/barn-ida.htm"
While in the video, women were used to say "save us from the black men," I found an interesting article that was almost the opposite. Jack Johnson, a succcessful, black boxer in the early twentieth century was infamous for his relationships with white women. One woman who was white and blonde was from Minnesota. She met Johnson when she was 19, and requested a job as a secretary. Johnson agreed. Their relationship was "purely buisness" according to sources. However, the woman's mother and the family lawyer charged Johnson with the abduction of her daughter. The 19 year old, Lucille Cameron, refused to assist her mother and lawyer in their attempts to charge Johnson. Several different small courts, such as the court of public opinion found Johnson guilty, but without Cameron's testimony, the legal system could pursue the case to further. (The trials were from 1911-1913). Following the ordeal, Lucille Cameron and Jack Johnson were married.
Johnson was most likely able to avoid serious jail time or lynching, since he lived in Chicago, part of a northern state. Several Texas and Southern newspapers commented on the whole ordeal. They wished Johnson could be in their part of the country, so that he could be punished to the full extent of the law. They also criticized northerners for their mild racial policies.
The Jack Johnson trials were unique, in that Cameron, (as well as other white women who were romantically involved with Johnson), firmly stood by his side. The societal responce was overwhelimingly negative, yet the women stood their ground. This is very different from the film we watched in class, however there was little information available on that topic.
Works Cited:
Gilmore, Al-Tony. "Jack Johnson and White Women: The National Impact." The Journal of Negro History, Vol. 58, No. 1 (Jan., 1973), pp. 18-38. Association for the Study of African-American Life and History, Inc.
(See URL: www.jstor.org/stable/2717154?seq=1 for more information on Jack Johnson and his relationships with white women).
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Grant whitaker
White Women’s outlook on blacks
• In the video we watched it showed how women had a huge part in how black men of the time were lynched
• During the film it shows the white activist women groups walking down the streets with signs with statements that would accuse black men of rape, sexual cases , and other huge chimes.
• They marched until they could get people to lynch the accused black men.
• The serotypes in which the white women were trying to get the black men to be like were very dirty, mean, and careless law breaking people that should be hung.
• Men could not handle the amount of justice
• In 1892 Ida B. Wells a black reporter who was the first to raise a report on lynching, and its horrible truths to the main stream media.
• “The Free Speech and Headlight, a Memphis newspaper that she co-edited. She urged the black townspeople of Memphis to move west and to resist the coercive violence of lynching.” (1)
• The way that white men saw the amount of graphic lynching that was happing as a stage of manhood in which black men who had committed this perishable chime should be killed for it.
• “Wells’ resistance to white male ideology influenced other leading black women of the time, such as Anna Julia Cooper, who was instrumental in organizing women to resist race and gender control. Cooper helped found the Colored Women’s Young Woman’s Christian Association (YWCA) in 1905.”
"A Historical Look at Lynching and Women: The Influence of Ida B. Wells." CU-Dillard Collaborative Curriculum Partnership(2004): 1. Web. 16 Nov 2009. "http://amath.colorado.edu/carnegie/lit/lynch/women.htm"
[8] From George Washington University’s webpage on Anna Julia Cooper, under the “Social Activism” section. "http://www.gwu.edu/~e73afram/be-nk-gbe.html"
(1) When a respected black store owner and friend of Barnett (Wells) was lynched in 1892, Wells used her paper to attack the evils of lynching. Women in History "http://www.lkwdpl.org/wihohio/barn-ida.htm"
Ceallach Per. 5 (partner Grant)
While in the video, women were used to say "save us from the black men," I found an interesting article that was almost the opposite. Jack Johnson, a succcessful, black boxer in the early twentieth century was infamous for his relationships with white women. One woman who was white and blonde was from Minnesota. She met Johnson when she was 19, and requested a job as a secretary. Johnson agreed. Their relationship was "purely buisness" according to sources. However, the woman's mother and the family lawyer charged Johnson with the abduction of her daughter. The 19 year old, Lucille Cameron, refused to assist her mother and lawyer in their attempts to charge Johnson. Several different small courts, such as the court of public opinion found Johnson guilty, but without Cameron's testimony, the legal system could pursue the case to further. (The trials were from 1911-1913). Following the ordeal, Lucille Cameron and Jack Johnson were married.
Johnson was most likely able to avoid serious jail time or lynching, since he lived in Chicago, part of a northern state. Several Texas and Southern newspapers commented on the whole ordeal. They wished Johnson could be in their part of the country, so that he could be punished to the full extent of the law. They also criticized northerners for their mild racial policies.
The Jack Johnson trials were unique, in that Cameron, (as well as other white women who were romantically involved with Johnson), firmly stood by his side. The societal responce was overwhelimingly negative, yet the women stood their ground. This is very different from the film we watched in class, however there was little information available on that topic.
Works Cited:
Gilmore, Al-Tony. "Jack Johnson and White Women: The National Impact." The Journal of Negro History, Vol. 58, No. 1 (Jan., 1973), pp. 18-38. Association for the Study of African-American Life and History, Inc.
(See URL: www.jstor.org/stable/2717154?seq=1 for more information on Jack Johnson and his relationships with white women).
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