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Nearly 3,500 African Americans
and 1,300 whites were lynched
in the United States between
1882 and 1968, mostly from
1882 to 1920.
The largest mass lynching in American
history involved the lynching of
eleven Italian immigrants in New
Orleans, in 1891.
During the Antebellum, assertive
African Americans and Latinos
in the South West were the
object of racial lynching.
Lynching increased dramatically
in the aftermath of the Civil War,
after slavery had been abolished
and recently freed black men
gained the right to vote.
The Dyer Anti-Lynching Bill was first
introduced to United States Congress in
1918 by Republican Congressman
Leonidas C. Dyer of Missouri. The bill was
passed by the United States House of
Representatives in 1922.
•Passage of the Dyer Bill was blocked by
white Democratic senators from the South
• The Dyer Bill later influenced anti-lynching
legislation, including the Costigan Wagner
Bill, both blocked by Senator William Borah.
Major Political Detail:
Roosevelt was also concerned about a provision
of the Costigan-Wagner bill that called for the
punishment of sheriffs who failed to protect their
prisoners from lynch mobs. He believed political
support of the white voters in the South would
be lost by approving the bill and lose the 1936
presidential election.
Excerpt from the Biographical Directory of the United
States Congress
Currently…
Confederate Gen .Nathan Bedford Forrest
served as the first grand wizard
of the Ku Klux Klan.
On January 8, 2014, the Duval County School
Board voted to change Nathan B. Forrest High to
Westside High, to reflect the neighborhood.
Meanwhile…the Tampa Bay Area
has a haunt of its own…
Newspaper Articles…
The crime
Thethe front
made
John Evans was lynched on Tuesday, November 12, 1914. Petersburg, Florida
page.
The accusation of rape
and murder was the
result of a voice
recognition
John Evans was not formally accused, he was guilty of rape a
murder by association with a man named E. B. Tobin.
Photographs were taken
during the lynching and the
Mayor expressed it was against
the law to distribute them.
The photograph surrendered
the plate.
Although implicated in the double crime,
Tobin sits in jail as details of the lynching
along with statements of outrage make it
to the last page of the paper.
Judge Robles expressed
his dissatisfaction with
the lynching
In 1979, Mrs. Lulu Grant gives an
account of the lynching of John
Evans.