Mob Lynches Negro In Court House Yard Summary
On April 18, 1931, Thomas, J Pressley witnessed a man hanging from a limb. The newspaper article title states ‘Mob Lynches Negro in Court House Yard”. It stated that the mob of whites’ march into the jailhouse took out George Smith a Negro and hang him from a tree. That is when Mr. Pressely saw him hanging. The reason he hung is that a white girl at that time stated that he came into her room and tried to attack her and she scratched him in his face. So, when he was found the white girl pointed him out as his assailant. Mr. Pressel sated this was his first time seeing a dead body or even someone being lynched. These experiences has given Georgia a whirl of terror and misery for everyone. Wither you were an African American trying
to create a life for your family or even a white person opening your eyes and experiences what the laws have caused. It was dramatic to know that at times if your skin was not white you would likely get harassed or scoured for being in certain areas. Or even looking a white person the wrong way. However, do that slavery did mandated the right s of whites Ove the blacks these Jim Crow Laws in Georgia was bound to happen? Whites feared the inferior of African Americans taking over the south. Additionally, de that the whites were against slavery being abolished these laws was a form of slaves with no rights or consideration to African Americans. Additionally, the violence of African American increases I Georgia due to the Jim Crow laws. It seemed like African Americans could do right in the eyes of their white fellow Americans. Having everything possible segregated with signs if very humiliating. Especially when the rules are as serious as accidentally going into the wrong door or bumping into a white individual, you are being black could get arrested. Others may say lynching was like a ritual to the Ku Klux Klan in Georgia or other whites that participate in it.
In an example, with the African American being lynched due to the white lady say he attacked her. The was no court case for the gentleman. Even then, it seems that the sheriff doesn’t have the right he supposed to have if the mob was able to come and take the man out of the jail cell. Are things like these that scared the African Americans from wanted to do anything.
to create a life for your family or even a white person opening your eyes and experiences what the laws have caused. It was dramatic to know that at times if your skin was not white you would likely get harassed or scoured for being in certain areas. Or even looking a white person the wrong way. However, do that slavery did mandated the right s of whites Ove the blacks these Jim Crow Laws in Georgia was bound to happen? Whites feared the inferior of African Americans taking over the south. Additionally, de that the whites were against slavery being abolished these laws was a form of slaves with no rights or consideration to African Americans. Additionally, the violence of African American increases I Georgia due to the Jim Crow laws. It seemed like African Americans could do right in the eyes of their white fellow Americans. Having everything possible segregated with signs if very humiliating. Especially when the rules are as serious as accidentally going into the wrong door or bumping into a white individual, you are being black could get arrested. Others may say lynching was like a ritual to the Ku Klux Klan in Georgia or other whites that participate in it.
In an example, with the African American being lynched due to the white lady say he attacked her. The was no court case for the gentleman. Even then, it seems that the sheriff doesn’t have the right he supposed to have if the mob was able to come and take the man out of the jail cell. Are things like these that scared the African Americans from wanted to do anything.