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This 3 page paper discusses Ida B. Well's book "Southern Horrors and Other Writings," and why Wells calls lynching terrorism. Bibliography lists 1 source.
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equal rights. In fact they were not; and the end of the Civil War brought with it a determination on the part of southern whites to deny blacks their rights.
Jim Crow laws were passed that systematically favored whites; racism was blatant and racial conflict seemed worse than ever before. In this 1870s and the 1880s, it took on a
particularly vicious form: lynching. This paper discusses Ida B. Wells campaign against lynching and why she defined it as terrorism. Discussion There are a great many definitions of terrorism, but
the one that seems to be most widely accepted is that terrorists attack innocent civilians in order to coerce the government into accepting their terms. It is usually seen as
the last resort of those who have no political power and who feel they cannot make their voice heard any other way. They try to get their way by instilling
fear into the general population. That at least is the definition that seems to work today if we are considering terrorism in the Middle East. Does it work in the
South? Yes and no. Clearly the whites in the South were much better off, in most cases, than blacks, so the idea of defining lynchings as terrorist attacks based on
the perpetrators need to have a voice in their own government doesnt really hold up. Whites were in charge-they had no need to use terrorist tactics to gain political supremacy.
However, they were determined to keep blacks "in line" and in that sense, they used the lynchings to instill terror into the black population. The charge most often used to
justify the crime of hanging was rape; though other trumped up charges were sometimes leveled at black victims to justify the lynching. But rape was a charge that put the
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