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Stony the Road: Reconstruction, White Supremacy, and the Rise of Jim Crow. New York: Penguin Press, 2019. ISBN 0-5255-5953-1; Gilmore, Glenda Elizabeth. Gender and Jim Crow: Women and the Politics of White Supremacy in North Carolina, 1896–1920. Chapel Hill, NC: University of North Carolina Press, 1996. ISBN 0-8078-2287-6; Griffin, John Howard.
After he was sent to an interfaith crisis center, Coppin left and returned to his mother's apartment. After police arrived Coppin jumped out of a first-story window and claimed to have a gun. Coppin then pulled out an object and police shot him. Coppin was holding a hair brush. [209] January 4, 2008 Tarika Wilson: 26 Lima, Ohio
Rape, attempted rape, or other forms of sexual assault were the second most common accusation; these accusations were often used as a pretext for lynching African Americans who were accused of violating Jim Crow era etiquette or engaged in economic competition with Whites. One study found that there were "4,467 total victims of lynching from ...
A White woman who falsely accused four Black men of rape in the Jim Crow-era South in 1949 has died at the age of 92. Norma Padgett Upshaw claimed the four men – Ernest Thomas, Samuel Shepherd ...
But its residents knew white people could use violence to enforce Jim Crow elsewhere. In 1955, Mamie Till-Mobley stayed in the town during breaks in the trial of two white men accused of torturing ...
On the way, Knox confessed to having attacked Crow, after being subjected to a "form of torture known as mock lynching." [2]: 38–39 Knox was said to have struck Crow from behind and dragged her down a gully in the woods. [15] He allegedly assaulted the girl with a rock and raped her. [16]
Project rooted in 'The Negro Motorist Green Book' tells the story. ... an annual travel guide published between 1936 and 1966 to help Black motorists travel safely during the Jim Crow era. ...
The East St. Louis riots or East St. Louis massacres, of late May and July 1–3, 1917, were an outbreak of labor- and race-related violence by whites that caused the death of 40–250 black people and about $400,000 (over $8 million, in 2017 US dollars) in property damage. An estimated 6,000 black people were left homeless.