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The Press and Lynching
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This chapter documents the complex relationship between lynching and newspapers, which has received inadequate attention. As the author writes, “any understanding of the phenomenon of lynching in the United States must begin with news accounts of lynchings.” Between 1890 and 1920, newspapers in America carried news and discussions about lynching on an almost daily basis. White papers legitimized and at times even incited lynching through the use of sensationalism, melodrama, and racist stereotypes of white female victimhood and “Black brutes.” The Black press, including Ida B. Wells and John L. Mitchell, fought back, documenting lynchings, exposing the racist lies used to justify them, and organizing public protest and support for federal anti-lynching bills.
Title: The Press and Lynching
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This chapter documents the complex relationship between lynching and newspapers, which has received inadequate attention.
As the author writes, “any understanding of the phenomenon of lynching in the United States must begin with news accounts of lynchings.
” Between 1890 and 1920, newspapers in America carried news and discussions about lynching on an almost daily basis.
White papers legitimized and at times even incited lynching through the use of sensationalism, melodrama, and racist stereotypes of white female victimhood and “Black brutes.
” The Black press, including Ida B.
Wells and John L.
Mitchell, fought back, documenting lynchings, exposing the racist lies used to justify them, and organizing public protest and support for federal anti-lynching bills.
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