Is This a Sample of States' Rights?

Is This a Sample of States' Rights?

Mitchell Jr., John

John Mitchell Jr. is a freedman who was born a slave in Richmond, Virginia on July 11, 1863. John was a civil rights enthusiast, newspaper editor, and a politician. He was in charge of getting the news out to the public of hangings and lynch mobs that were stretching across America. He was known for campaigning against racist acts such as lynching. In his political aims, he depicts a former political cartoon that shows the meaning of the law during the paramilitary period. The populations of African Americans grew and occupied the Deep South due to the results of slavery being abolished. The hate crimes that rested in the hands of Black Americans were seen more reasonable than the safety of their livelihood. During post Reconstruction era, the atrocities of black men, women, and children grew and only became known as the era of white barbarism. The increase of government affiliation increased, as did the public’s hunger for more violence bestowed upon the lower class society. As the years passed the lynching punishment made a turn for the greater good of black society.

"Lynch Law Must Go” The Richmond Planet, May 28, 1938 http://www.lva.virginia.gov/exhibits/mitchell/lynch1.htm

1938-28-05

Landon Burkhart

Anti-lynching Bill, paramilitary violence, Lynching