Wednesday, August 17, 2011
Can anybody rewrite or prooread part of my essay?
Another story was written by Ida B. Wells-Barnett, “Lynch Law,” where Wells discusses lynching in the South, and how authority didn’t do anything about it. The story talks about how after the Civil War, the South couldn’t come up with an agreement with African Americans having freedom, and as a result they executed them in order to maintain white power. After years of hatred and unconcern, most of the states throughout the south ped a Lynch Law which legalized lynching in those states. When the law was ped, many white men continued to murder, , and har African Americans since it was not considered a felony. A mob group of white men created a clan called the KKK, and executed many African Americans. By the end of 1891, more than a thousand men were murdered by the KKK. Most of the states authority supported these mob groups, and some even joined them. This was a very fundamental law for the south, and since the states were not acting as individuals they couldn’t prosecute or convict the people who took part in lynching. This idea of an individual actions was used when the Cruishank decision plead not guilty, so they would justify that the states were not involved lynching, and it was an individual action. The other justification the states used was the 14 amendment, which claims that a state cannot take a humans life or property; however, it did not state that an individual couldn't. This is why many white people in the south would take part in lynching to restore white supremacy in the south and maintain power in the government.
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