{"product_id":"2940013196940","title":"Southern Horrors: Lynch Law in All Its Phases","description":"1 _The_ OFFENSE\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eWednesday evening May 24, 1892, the city of Memphis was filled with\u003cbr\u003eexcitement. Editorials in the daily papers of that date caused a meeting\u003cbr\u003eto be held in the Cotton Exchange Building; a committee was sent for the\u003cbr\u003eeditors of the _Free Speech_ an Afro-American journal published in that\u003cbr\u003ecity, and the only reason the open threats of lynching that were made were\u003cbr\u003enot carried out was because they could not be found. The cause of all this\u003cbr\u003ecommotion was the following editorial published in the _Free Speech_ May\u003cbr\u003e21, 1892, the Saturday previous.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e  Eight negroes lynched since last issue of the _Free Speech_ one at\u003cbr\u003e  Little Rock, Ark., last Saturday morning where the citizens broke(?)\u003cbr\u003e  into the penitentiary and got their man; three near Anniston, Ala., one\u003cbr\u003e  near New Orleans; and three at Clarksville, Ga., the last three for\u003cbr\u003e  killing a white man, and five on the same old racket--the new alarm\u003cbr\u003e  about raping white women. The same programme of hanging, then shooting\u003cbr\u003e  bullets into the lifeless bodies was carried out to the letter.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e  Nobody in this section of the country believes the old thread-bare lie\u003cbr\u003e  that Negro men rape white women. If Southern white men are not careful,\u003cbr\u003e  they will overreach themselves and public sentiment will have a\u003cbr\u003e  reaction; a conclusion will then be reached which will be very damaging\u003cbr\u003e  to the moral reputation of their women.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe _Daily Commercial_ of Wednesday following, May 25, contained the\u003cbr\u003efollowing leader:\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e  Those negroes who are attempting to make the lynching of individuals of\u003cbr\u003e  their race a means for arousing the worst passions of their kind are\u003cbr\u003e  playing with a dangerous sentiment. The negroes may as well understand\u003cbr\u003e  that there is no mercy for the negro rapist and little patience with his\u003cbr\u003e  defenders. A negro organ printed in this city, in a recent issue\u003cbr\u003e  publishes the following atrocious paragraph: \"Nobody in this section of\u003cbr\u003e  the country believes the old thread-bare lie that negro men rape white\u003cbr\u003e  women. If Southern white men are not careful they will overreach\u003cbr\u003e  themselves, and public sentiment will have a reaction; and a conclusion\u003cbr\u003e  will be reached which will be very damaging to the moral reputation of\u003cbr\u003e  their women.\"","brand":"SAP","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47147464884464,"sku":"2940013196940","price":0.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/2940013196940_p0.jpg?v=1763578093","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/2940013196940","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}