Anti-Lynching+Movement

​ Catrina Adcock Rob Raison Tom McWilliams Founding of the NCAAP On February 12, 1909 The National Association for the Advancement of Colored People was founded by a group of activists. They called themselves the National Negro Committee. The founders were Ida Wells-Barnett, W.E.B. DuBois, Henry Moscowitz, Mary White Ovington, and Oswald Garrison Villiard and William English Walling. The NAACP first wanted to make whites aware of the need for racial equality. In 1916, it began to expand its association into the South. Since 2004, the NAACP has around 500,000 members. Black History Month is in February in because it honors this important event.

To congress, In the declaration of independence does it not say, “ All men are created equal ”? Well if so then why kill Negroes ? They deserve the same type of respect as any other man walking around the United States. People say they are not considered to be even human? Well that is just absurd because they are just people from a different country who share the same characteristics as a human. They eat, breathe, live, die, and have the capacity of reason. Why must one be hanged because of their race, skin color, or ethnicity? It’s morally wrong and goes against the constitution along with natural law. You may think it’s ok but you allowing lynching in the south are destroying the African-American community. I highly doubt that you go to sleep at night peacefully without thinking about the cries and screams of those innocent people being lynched or burned alive. The thought about that feeling can leave even the strongest of men emotionally distraught. A young black teacher named Ida B. Wells once wrote that “She saw during a short period that 728 black men and women had be lynched by white mobs”.

Since the beginning of lynching 1882-1968 a total of 3,446 black people have died because you allow senseless manslaughter down in the south. Abraham Lincoln freed slaves, but that should not give anyone the right to kill them. They are hard working citizens that strive to make a living just like you people in congress. There is no need to kill them off if they are not causing any harm. So as my ending statement all I have to say is let my people be free without the worry, let them grow and prosper in life.



** Double lynching of Abram Smith 19, and Thomas Shipp 18 --Lynched to death in Marion, Indiana August 7, 1930. **


**The lynching of Rubin Stacy, July 19, 1935, Fort Lauderdale, Florida. From Strange Fruit: Biography of a Song, David Margolick, 2001**