the usa in the 1930's (caution: graphic pics)

[GreatCaesarsGhost]

http://members.aol.com/Wdwylie4/1930-1939.htm

[NoSheep]

1. oh god. speechless.

:-(

[Book Lover]

2. Good old days, indeed

Thanks for the link.

[deutsey]

3. Strange fruit

Read "Going to Meet the Man" (short story) by James Baldwin and "The United States of Lyncherdom" (essay) by Mark Twain.

[still_one]

4. Does this have anything to do with the people in congress

who refused to sign the anti-lynching stuff?

[Kikosexy2]

5. Never..

seizes to amaze me the evil that men do unto mankind...just boggles the mind..

[Warpy]

8. Read what they did to WOMEN

Most of those damned laws were targeted at women, trying to force them to stay in their place of unpaid domestic servitude, saintly, powerless, and sexless.

THAT is why our mothers, grandmothers, and great grandmothers all fought so hard for the vote.

The far right would love to turn the clock back and put all those laws into place again.

[Bouncy Ball]

6. Ug.

Horrific stuff. You can click on the home page link and go to any decade and read things like that. Human rights violations carried out by North American governments.

Wow.

[SlipperySlope]

7. Are you blaming FDR for all this?

I don't understand the context of why this was posted...

[Warpy]

10. Roosevelt was elected in 1932

and didn't take office until 1933. Read it again.

[librechik]

14. anti lynching bill in the senate this week n/t

[SlipperySlope]

16. Ok - got confused - first line in link is about FDR - N/T

[teach1st]

9. I'm ashamed to say I never heard of this...

http://members.aol.com/Wdwylie4/1920-1929.htm

The 1920s

1921 - On June 1, “Black Wallstreet,” the name fittingly given to one of the most affluent black communities in America, was bombed from the air and burned to the ground by mobs of envious whites. In a period spanning fewer than 12 hours, a the thriving black business district in north Tulsa lay smoldering — a model community destroyed, and a major black American economic movement resoundingly defused.

The night’s carnage left some 3,000 black Americans dead, and over 600 successful businesses lost. Among these were 21 churches, 21 restaurants, 30 grocery stores and two movie theaters, plus a hospital, a bank, a post office, libraries, schools, law offices, a half dozen private airplanes and even a bus system. As could have been expected, the impetus behind it all was the Ku Klux Klan, working in consort with ranking city officials and many other sympathizers.

...


It was typical to have a picnic on a Friday evening in Oklahoma. The word was short for “pick a nigger” to lynch. They would lynch a black male and cut off body parts as souvenirs. This went on every weekend all around the United States. That’s where the word picnic came from.

Tulsa Tribune Editorial, Saturday, June 4, 1921: “Such a district as the old “Niggertown” must never be allowed in Tulsa again. It was a cesspool of iniquity and corruption. It was the cesspool which had been pointed out specifically to the Tulsa police and to Police Commissioner Adkison, and they could see nothing in it.

[newblewtoo]

12. Some good info but some ...

URBAN Legend
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It was typical to have a picnic on a Friday evening in Oklahoma. The word was short for “pick a nigger” to lynch. They would lynch a black male and cut off body parts as souvenirs. This went on every weekend all around the United States. That’s where the word picnic came from.
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For more information see:

http://www.snopes.com/language/offense/picnic.htm


Claim: 'Picnic' was a shortening of 'pick a nigger' and referred to an outdoor community gathering during which families ate from box lunches while a randomly-chosen black man was hanged for the diners' entertainment.
Status: False.

Example:

Sorry, it detracts from the rest of the work IMHO

[teach1st]

13. Thanks!

I was beginning to get suspicious as I saw the word "picnic" used in much earlier contexts.

[newblewtoo]

15. de nada

It just seemed too convenient... BTW Many don't realize the amount of Clan activity there was in the north..... It was not just a southern phenomenon....

[knowbody0]

11. our bloody history

shame on us.

[Roland99]

17. Print that out and mail to the bastards that didn't sign the legislation!