tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-57113078446695664.post5403020166792143310..comments2024-03-22T20:34:13.792-05:00Comments on Indomitable | The online home of Chauncey DeVega: Did You Know that America is Becoming a Cruel(er) Nation?Lady Zora, Chauncey DeVega, and Gordon Gartrellehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09138154899923808806noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-57113078446695664.post-30145967591749937812011-10-08T22:09:51.720-05:002011-10-08T22:09:51.720-05:00Lynchings were not sad events that affected only i...Lynchings were not sad events that affected only isolated individuals. Race terrorism is political, and it often had a dramatic demographic impact. Springfield, MO, became a sundown town in April, 1906, after Horace Duncan and Fred Coker, accused of the rape of a white woman, were taken from jail and given a double lynching from a electrified tower in the town square. <br /><br />Atop the tower stood a replica of the Statue of Liberty. <br /><br />The grand jury that investigated the rape a few days later decided that the woman's accusation was a falsehood.<br /><br />When I described this incident to a seminar class, even the history grad student who grew up in Springfield knew nothing about it. Memory, unlike history, must be cleansed.<br /><br />Kimberly Harper’s "White Man’s Heaven: The Lynching and Expulsion of Blacks in the Southern Ozarks, 1894-1909" cites the Springfield lynchings as a key incident that led to the spread of sundown towns throughout southwestern Missouri and northern Arkansas.G Newmanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10787633155347238902noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-57113078446695664.post-23488885231497432302011-10-06T21:27:10.854-05:002011-10-06T21:27:10.854-05:00Tanya. So many stories equally horrid. Have you ev...Tanya. So many stories equally horrid. Have you ever heard of what happened to Claude Neal? He was cut apart and made to eat his own genitals by the lynching party before they dismembered him further and his body parts sold.<br /><br />http://www.legendsofamerica.com/ah-lynching10.htmlchaunceydevegahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09652406326490873337noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-57113078446695664.post-89937286960163631272011-10-06T21:01:18.779-05:002011-10-06T21:01:18.779-05:00I'm not totally surprised that this is my firs...I'm not totally surprised that this is my first time hearing this story; I am, however, ashamed that I'd never heard of it. We were always taught of nameless, faceless blacks being burned and lynched. I haven't been quite this disgusted by a past injustice since - wow - the day before yesterday when I read about George Stinney, Jr.Henri B.https://www.blogger.com/profile/00892218291117471971noreply@blogger.com