Used this Presentation when teaching Afrikan/Afrikan American Studies from 2002-2008.

1. LYNCHING IN
AMERICA
DR. DUKUZUMURENYI

2. IDA B. WELLS-BARNETT [1862-1931]

4. Dr John Henrik Clarke
• The events which transpired
five thousand years ago; Five
years ago or five minutes ago,
have determined what will
happen five minutes from now;
five years; From now or five
thousand years from now. All
history is a current event.

5. "Waiting for the show to start” John Hartfield
- Ellisville, Mississippi June 26,1919 2:30 p.m.

7. LYNCHING
• A LYNCHING CONSISTED OF:
• 1. A notice to whites in neighboring
towns; so they could witness the
lynching.
• 2. A huge spectacle with thousands
watching.
• 3. The burning of the victim, usually a
male, at the stake, after first being
exposed to hours of wrathful pain,
known as “surgery below the belt”

8. LYNCHING
• And as if that wasn’t bad enough:
• 4. The observers took parts of the
mutilated body home for souvenirs;
and took pictures for post cards.

9. DULUTH, MINNESOTA

11. LYNCHED THEN SHOT!

13. MARION, INDIANA

16. GEORGE MEADOWS: ALABAMA 1889

21. NEGRO IS LYNCHED AT
GARLAND CITY
• Brutally attacked a White Man Saturday.
“Special to the Gazette, Garland City,
July 30. Andrew Avery the Negro who
shot and fatally wounded Will Woods, a
white man, near here Saturday morning,
was hanged by a mob in the heart of
town tonight at 9:45. About 40 men were
in the party. The Lynching was
conducted in a quiet fashion” (The
Arkansas Gazette, July 31, 1917)

30. HORACE DUNCAN: LYNCHED 1906 SPRINGFIELD, MO

31. HORACE DUNCAN
• "At the center of the Square on
Easter weekend 1906, three innocent
men: Will Allen, Fred Coker and
Horace Duncan were lynched, burned
and dismembered, leading to the
exodus of many black residents from
Springfield. Photo donated in honor
of Fern and Ralph Hedric and Laura
Gregg Stewart and all people who
teach tolerance.” The photograph is
that of Horace Duncan.

32. HORACE DUNCAN
• It was taken on his twentieth
birthday in March of 1906 about a
month before his death at the hands
of a lynch mob numbering
approximately seven thousand.
Duncan was one of three victims.
They were found innocent by a grand
jury who also found the Springfield,
Missouri police department to be
culpably negligent at the time of
"The Easter Offering."

34. OMAHA, NEBRASKS 1919

36. VERNON DAHMER: HATTIESBURG, MISSISSIPPI

38. LEONARD GAKINYA: SPRINGFIELD, MISSOURI 10/02/2002

41. Dr. James Cameron
• Dr. Cameron, the only known
survivor of a lynching, founded
America ’s Black Holocaust
Museum in 1988. He has dedicated
his life to promoting civil rights and
racial equality for all Americans.
One of his goals was to document
the injustices suffered by people of
African descent in the US.