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THEME: Lynchings Flashcards

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Who wrote “The Blaze”?

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Sutton Griggs

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What is the plot of “The Blaze”?

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Bud & Foresta Crump try to use their education and industry to uplift the race, and are lynched

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In “The Blaze”, what do the lynch mob want to use the lynching as?

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An example to other African Americans

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What is “The Blaze” a recreation of?

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The 1904 lynching of Luther Holbert & his wife in Doddsville, Mississippi

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Who wrote “Lynch Law in the South”?

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Frederick Douglass

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What was the purpose of “Lynch Law in the South”?

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Asked the largely white audience to consider the consequences of American racial oppression

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What is lynching evidence of, according to “Lynch Law in the South”?

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That the Negro is making progress: rising in wealth, intelligence, and manly character

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In “Lynch Law in the South”, what are the 2 opposing solutions?

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  1. Hope: The South will reach a point where it wants no more blood
  2. Fear: Negro will act, if the law does not
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Who wrote “Mob Rule in New Orleans”?

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Ida B. Wells-Barnett

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According to “Mob Rule in New Orleans”, what is lynching a form of?

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State sponsored terrorism that allowed whites to kill with impunity, without the government intervening to protect black property or lives

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What is “Mob Rule in New Orleans”?

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A reconstruction of the facts behind Robert Charles’ supposed rampage

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What is the aim of “Mob Rule in New Orleans”?

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Show that Charles was not the “monster” of newspaper accounts, but had the characteristics of American heroism

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Who wrote “The Haunted Oak”?

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Paul Dunbar

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In “The Haunted Oak”, who is the most sensitive and remorseful participant in the crime?

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The tree

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Who wrote “The Litany at Atlanta”?

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W. E. B. DuBois

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Where was “The Litany at Atlanta” written?

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As DuBois sat in a Jim Crow car on his way to Atlanta, with the fate of his family in the race massacre unknown

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What caused the 1906 Atlanta race riot?

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Mass hysteria after newspaper reports of black men raping white women

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In “The Litany at Atlanta”, what caused black crime?

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White Oppression

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What 2 ironies are pointed out in “The Litany at Atlanta”?

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  1. Whites violate the fundamental tenets of Christianity in the name of God
  2. Negroes told to “work and rise”, but punished when they did
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Who wrote “Christ Re-crucified”?

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Countee Cullen

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What are 2 main themes of “Christ Re-crucified’?

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  1. Southern landscape is hell on earth

2. Lynching transfigured the ordinary person into Christ

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What are 3 pieces of biblical imagery in “Christ Re-crucified”?

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  1. Thorns
  2. Purple Robe
  3. Wine
23
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In “Christ Re-crucified”, what is the irony of Christ’s crucifixion?

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Christ supposedly died to redeem all sins, yet apparently being black was not redeemed

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Who wrote “Christ in Alabama”?

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Langston Hughes

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What is the ‘South’ in “Christ in Alabama”?

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The cross, Christ being a black man

26
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Who wrote “The Race Problem in a Christian State”?

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Reverdy C. Ransom

27
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What is the irony pointed out in “The Race Problem in a Christian State”?

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The USA is a nation that sympathises with other oppressed peoples

28
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Who wrote “Crusade for Justice”?

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Ida B. Wells

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In “Crusade for Justice”, why did IBW refuse to give a tour?

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She was told she couldn’t talk about lynching

30
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In “Crusade for Justice”, how does IBW see herself?

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As a mouthpiece through which to tell the story of lynching

31
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In “Clarence Darrow’s Speech”, how does he illustrate that the great cause fought for Post-Emancipation is dead?

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A black man was lynched in the shadow of the monument built to the memory of Abraham Lincoln

32
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According to “Clarence Darrow’s Speech”, under what circumstances would lynching be acceptable?

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If a white man was lynched and executed for the assault on a colored woman

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In “Clarence Darrow’s Speech”, what should the response be to lynch mobs?

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Not punish, but enlighten

34
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Who wrote “The Negro and Non-Resistance”?

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E. Franklin Frazier

35
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What is a stupid idea, n “The Negro and Non-Resistance”?

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The idea that Southern white people love us when they lynch us

36
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Who wrote “Black America Begins to Doubt”?

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George S. Schuyler

37
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In “Black America Begins to Doubt”, what do Negroes demand?

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To know why they should revere a God who permits them to be lynched, Jim-Crowed, and disenfranchised

38
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Who wrote “A Sunday Morning in the South”?

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Georgia Douglas Johnson

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What is special about “A Sunday Morning in the South”?

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First play to deal truthfully with the issue of alleged interracial rape of white women and dramatise white women’s complicity in the lynching ritual

40
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What is the plot of “A Sunday Morning in the South”?

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Tom Griggs is lynched for the rape of a white woman he did not commit

41
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Who wrote “Black Souls”?

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Annie Nathan Meyer

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What are 4 themes in “Black Souls”?

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  1. White women’s desire for black men
  2. Sexual exploitation of black women by white men
  3. Contrasting ideas among black Americans on the most effective ways to work against the forces of repression & for self-affirmation
  4. Hypocrisy of a nation that will send black soldiers overseas to fight for freedom, but will permit lynching
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What was the criticism of “Black Souls”?

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Written by a white woman: unconvincing characters (esp. David Lewis)

44
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What was the plot of “Black Souls”?

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  • Andrew Morgan trying to get money for his school (BTW model)
  • Ulysses and Corinne thinking of starting their own school
  • David accuses Andrew of succumbing to white supremacy
  • David had previously had an affair with Luella
  • Verne says Andrew cannot afford to stop the lynching
  • Verne rapes Phyllis
  • David lynched
45
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Who wrote “Lawd, Does You Undabstan?”?

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Ann Seymour Link

46
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What is the plot of “Lawd, Does You Undabstan?”?

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Doady poisons Jim to save him from being lynched, but they find the actual killer, so Jim dies in vain

47
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What lynching inspired Mary Church Terrell in “A Colored Woman in a White World”?

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1892 lynching of Tom Moss

48
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Who wrote “A Colored Woman in a White World”?

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Mary Church Terrell

49
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In “A Colored Woman in a White World”, what does MCT marvel at about lynchings?

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The colored man’s loyalty to the Christian religion despite the crimes committed against him

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