The Lynching South

The Call North

The Black Church

Goin' up Yonder

The Segregated North

Bronzeville is Born

Goin' Back Home

My Story

Coloreds, Negroes, Blacks, and African Americans left the south for many different reasons.  Some left  in search of the opportunity for northern employment due to the industrial progression of the United States.  Others left for social reasons.  The North presented a release from JIM CROW laws  and other forms of OPPRESSION that permeated the south.  Also, the occurrence of brutal lynching's of men, women and children encouraged thousands of Coloreds to flee the "hell of the South" for the Promised Land of the North.

Story of Oppression in the South

Below are pictures depicting the horrors of lynching's that occurred in the South.

Objective:

Students will become aware of the environmental climate of the South for African Americans at the turn of the twentieth century.

Questions:

1. Why were African Americans targeted to be lynched?

2. What was the social climate between Blacks and Whites during the early 1900's?

3. What was the role of the "crowd" at a lynching?

4. What were the JIM CROW laws and were they separate from the U. S. Constitution?

5. Explain the change of "nicknames" of people of color.

Links explaining the horrors of lynching:

1. Atlanta Journal - 'Without Sanctuary'

2. Without Sanctuary: Lynching Photography in America

3. The Press and Lynchings of African Americans

4. The Negro Holocaust