Civil War reprisals: lynching
Execution of a Colored Soldier 1864 (p.210)
Often used as ìrevengeî for black threats to white women, or as reprisal for successful black businesses
Post-bellum rise of resistant white supremacist, black-terrorizing groups such as the Klu Klux Klan (later celebrated in Griffithís epic film Birth of a Nation)
Lynching continued as a cultural phenomenon into the 20th Century:
- Gwendolyn Brooksí and Abel Meeropolís poetry
- Joe Jones, American Justice (White Justice) 1933 (p.410)
- Paul Cadmus, To the Lynching! 1935 (p.411)
- Boris Gorelick, Strange Fruit 1939 (p.411)
- Isamu Noguchi, Death (Lynched Figure) 1933 (p.412)
- Seymour Lipton, Lynched 1933 (p.412)