Mary-Elizabeth B. Murphy
- Published in print:
- 2018
- Published Online:
- September 2019
- ISBN:
- 9781469646725
- eISBN:
- 9781469646749
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- University of North Carolina Press
- DOI:
- 10.5149/northcarolina/9781469646725.003.0003
- Subject:
- History, African-American History
This chapter analyses how black women living in Washington, D.C. in the 1920s and early 1930s worked hard to pass a federal anti-lynching law. Over a period of fifteen years, women employed a range ...
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This chapter analyses how black women living in Washington, D.C. in the 1920s and early 1930s worked hard to pass a federal anti-lynching law. Over a period of fifteen years, women employed a range of protest tactics, including petitions, pickets, prayer meetings, congressional testimony, and a Silent Parade. The U.S. House of Representatives passed the Dyer Anti-Lynching Bill in 1922, but it died in the Senate. Four years later, two women testified in the Senate about the urgency of passing anti-lynching legislation, which reflected the growing visibility of black women in politics. But when activists protested the erasure of lynching at the National Crime Conference in 1934, they recognized that police brutality in the nation’s capital needed to be a political priority. Many of the veterans of anti-lynching activism turned toward eradicating interracial police violence in Washington, D.C. in the 1930s.Less
This chapter analyses how black women living in Washington, D.C. in the 1920s and early 1930s worked hard to pass a federal anti-lynching law. Over a period of fifteen years, women employed a range of protest tactics, including petitions, pickets, prayer meetings, congressional testimony, and a Silent Parade. The U.S. House of Representatives passed the Dyer Anti-Lynching Bill in 1922, but it died in the Senate. Four years later, two women testified in the Senate about the urgency of passing anti-lynching legislation, which reflected the growing visibility of black women in politics. But when activists protested the erasure of lynching at the National Crime Conference in 1934, they recognized that police brutality in the nation’s capital needed to be a political priority. Many of the veterans of anti-lynching activism turned toward eradicating interracial police violence in Washington, D.C. in the 1930s.
Betty Livingston Adams
- Published in print:
- 2016
- Published Online:
- September 2016
- ISBN:
- 9780814745465
- eISBN:
- 9781479880324
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- NYU Press
- DOI:
- 10.18574/nyu/9780814745465.003.0005
- Subject:
- Religion, Religion and Society
This chapter examines newly enfranchised black women’s public presence and Christian activism in the interwar years. No longer fighting a Southern problem, they focused their New Negro militancy on ...
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This chapter examines newly enfranchised black women’s public presence and Christian activism in the interwar years. No longer fighting a Southern problem, they focused their New Negro militancy on economic and social discrimination, health and housing, state and mob violence, and the abuse of black women. As white supremacy outpaced interracial dialogue, and the Great Depression increased segregated space in the New Jersey suburb’s schools and YMCA, black women tried to arouse the consciences of white women by calling for a united womanhood in support of the NAACP, Dyer Anti-Lynching Bill, Anti-Lynching Crusade, and Church Women’s Committee Interracial Movement. Despite the Northern expansion of segregation and the Ku Klux Klan, the suppression of Southern black women’s votes, and increased racial violence, few white suburbanites considered these legitimate issues of religion, feminism, or maternalism or pressed for social justice across the color line.Less
This chapter examines newly enfranchised black women’s public presence and Christian activism in the interwar years. No longer fighting a Southern problem, they focused their New Negro militancy on economic and social discrimination, health and housing, state and mob violence, and the abuse of black women. As white supremacy outpaced interracial dialogue, and the Great Depression increased segregated space in the New Jersey suburb’s schools and YMCA, black women tried to arouse the consciences of white women by calling for a united womanhood in support of the NAACP, Dyer Anti-Lynching Bill, Anti-Lynching Crusade, and Church Women’s Committee Interracial Movement. Despite the Northern expansion of segregation and the Ku Klux Klan, the suppression of Southern black women’s votes, and increased racial violence, few white suburbanites considered these legitimate issues of religion, feminism, or maternalism or pressed for social justice across the color line.
