Choose an application

• Reference Manager
• EndNote
• RefWorks (Direct export to RefWorks)

This study explores the relationship between the American liberal regime and the illiberal act of lynching. It explores the federal government's pattern of non-intervention regarding the lynchings of African Americans from the late 19th century to the 1960s. Although popular belief holds that the federal government was unable to address racial violence in the South, Kato argues that its actions and decisions show that federal inaction was not primarily a consequence of institutional or legal incapacities, but rather a decision supported and maintained by all three branches of the federal government.

Lynching --- African Americans --- Federal government --- Government policy --- History. --- Crimes against --- United States --- Race relations --- Afro-Americans --- Black Americans --- Colored people (United States) --- Negroes --- Africans --- Ethnology --- Blacks --- Homicide --- Black people --- Anti-lynching movements

Choose an application

• Reference Manager
• EndNote
• RefWorks (Direct export to RefWorks)

During the early 1890's, a series of shocking lynchings brought unprecedented international attention to American mob violence. This interest created an opportunity for Ida B. Wells, an African American journalist and civil rights activist from Memphis, to travel to England to cultivate British moral indignation against American lynching. Wells adapted race and gender roles established by African American abolitionists in Britain to legitimate her activism as a "black lady reformer"-a role American society denied her-and assert her right to defend her race from abroad. Based on extensive

Public opinion --- Social reformers --- Civil rights workers --- Lynching --- African American women social reformers --- African American women civil rights workers --- African American women --- Homicide --- Afro-American women social reformers --- Women social reformers, African American --- Women social reformers --- History --- Foreign public opinion, British. --- Wells-Barnett, Ida B., --- Wells, Ida B., --- Barnett, Ida B. Wells-, --- Iola, --- Travels. --- Travel. --- Wells, Ida Barnett --- Voyages around the world --- Biography --- United States --- Foreign public opinion [British ] --- Great Britain --- 18th century --- Anti-lynching movements