Witnessing Lynching

by Rice, Anne P.

• ISBN13: 9780813533308
• ISBN10: 0813533309
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2003-10-01
• Publisher: Rutgers Univ Pr

Author Biography

Anne P. Rice is an adjunct lecturer in the black studies department at Lehman College. Michele Wallace is a professor of English, women's studies, and film at City College of New York and the CUNY Graduate Center

Table of Contents

Illustrations	ix
Foreword: Passing, Lynching, and Jim Crow, by Michele Wallace	xi
Acknowledgments	xvii
Introduction: The Contest over Memory	1	(26)
1889-1900
Charles W. Chesnutt
"The Sheriff's Children" (1889)	27	(13)
Frederick Douglass
"Lynch Law in the South" (1892)	40	(3)
Frances Ellen Watkins Harper
"An Appeal to My Countrywomen" (1896)	43	(3)
Ida B. Wells-Barnett
Excerpt from Mob Rule in New Orleans (1900)	46	(15)
Pauline Elizabeth Hopkins
"Will Smith's Defense of His Race," from Contending Forces (1900)	61	(8)
1901-1910
Susie Baker King Taylor
"Thoughts on the Present Conditions," from Reminiscences of My Life in Camp with the 33rd United States Colored Troops Late ist S.C. Volunteers (1902)	69	(8)
Alice French (Octave Thanet)
"Beyond the Limit" (1903)	77	(12)
Paul Laurence Dunbar
"The Haunted Oak" (1903) and "The Lynching of Jube Benson" (1904)	89	(9)
Mary Church Terrell
Excerpt from "Lynching from a Negro's Point of View" (1904)	98	(8)
Sutton E. Griggs
"The Blaze," from The Hindered Hand; or, The Reign of the Repressionist (1905)	106	(5)
W.E.B. Du Bois
"A Litany at Atlanta" (1906)	111	(6)
Lizelia Augusta Jenkins Moorer
"Jim Crow Cars" (1907)	117	(4)
1911-1920
Bertha Johnston
"I Met a Little Blue-Eyed Girl" (1912)	121	(2)
James Weldon Johnson
Excerpt from The Autobiography of an Ex-Colored Man (1912) and "Brothers" (1916)	123	(12)
French Wilson
"Jimmy" (1914)	135	(6)
"The Waco Horror"
Supplement to the Crisis, July 1916	141	(10)
Theodore Dreiser
"Nigger Jeff" (1918)	151	(20)
Carl Sandburg
Excerpts from The Chicago Race Riots, July 1919 (1919) and "Man, the Man-Hunter" (1920)	171	(7)
Mary Powell Burrill
Aftermath (1919)	178	(10)
Claude McKay
"If We Must Die" (1919) and "The Lynching" (1922)	188	(3)
Angelina Weld Grimké
"Goldie" (1920)	191	(18)
1921-1930
William Pickens
Excerpt from Lynching and Debt Slavery (1921)	209	(7)
Leslie Pinckney Hill
"So Quietly" (1921)	216	(2)
Carrie Williams Clifford
"The Black Draftee from Dixie" (1922)	218	(2)
Countee Cullen
"Christ Recrucified" (1922)	220	(3)
Langston Hughes
"The South" (1922)	223	(3)
Jean Toomey
"Portrait in Georgia" and "Blood-Burning Moon" (1923)	226	(9)
Anne Spencer
"White Things" (1923)	235	(2)
Floyd J. Calvin
"The Present South" (1923)	237	(3)
Robert Bagnai
"The Unquenchable Fire" (1924)	240	(7)
Lola Ridge
"Morning Ride" (1927)	247	(4)
Angelina Weld Grimké
"Tenebris" (1927)	251	(1)
Walter Francis White
"I Investigate Lynchings" (1929)	252	(11)
1931-1935
Sterling Brown
"He Was a Man" (1932) and "Let Us Suppose" (1935)	263	(5)
Langston Hughes
"Christ in Alabama" (1932)	268	(2)
Nancy Clara Cunard
Excerpt from "Scottsboro-and Other Scottsboros" (1934)	270	(12)
Esther Popel
"Flag Salute" (1934)	282	(2)
Erskine Caldwell
"Kneel to the Rising Sun" (1935)	284	(20)
Richard Wright
"Between the World and Me" (1935)	304	(3)
Bibliography	307	(6)
Permissions	313	(2)
Index	315