The nineteenth century lynching mob cuts off ears, toes, and fingers, strips off flesh, and distributes portions of the body as souvenirs among the crowd.
From Ida B. Wells
Although lynchings have steadily increased in number and barbarity during the last twenty years, there has been no single effort put forth by the many moral and philanthropic forces of the country to put a stop to this wholesale slaughter.
The Afro-American is thus the backbone of the South.
The white man's dollar is his god, and to stop this will be to stop outrages in many localities.
The city of Memphis has demonstrated that neither character nor standing avails the Negro if he dares to protect himself against the white man or become his rival.
Brave men do not gather by thousands to torture and murder a single individual, so gagged and bound he cannot make even feeble resistance or defense.
The mob spirit has grown with the increasing intelligence of the Afro-American.
The appeal to the white man's pocket has ever been more effectual than all the appeals ever made to his conscience.
The white man's victory soon became complete by fraud, violence, intimidation and murder.
The negro has suffered far more from the commission of this crime against the women of his race by white men than the white race has ever suffered through his crimes.
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