Purpose

This blog is intended to act as a high school classroom resource for those studying the role of women in U.S. history, specifically their role in American lynchings.

Secondary Sources

http://chicagoboyz.net/archives/39501.html
     This blog discusses the findings of amateur historian George W. Hufsmith on the lynching of white Ellen Watson and her partner James Averell. This event took place in Sweetwater River Valley, Wyoming, during the July of 1889.

http://lauranelsonlynching.weebly.com/
     This site discusses the story of how Laura Nelson, a black woman, came to be lynched, as well as some of her family genealogy.

http://www.pbs.org/blackpress/news_bios/wells.html
     This site presents a biography of Ida B. Wells. I have used it to help explain her role as an anti-lynching advocate.

Crystal N. Feimster. Southern Horrors: Women and the Politics of Rape and Lynching. Harvard University Press: Cambridge, Massachusetts (2009). p.79-86
     This book discusses the path of racial politics from the mid-19th through early 20th Century. I have used it to discuss the role of female temperance groups in anti-lynching efforts.

Glenda Riley. “The New South during the Progressive Era, 1890 to 1914”. Inventing the American Woman: An Inclusive History.3rd Ed. Vol. 2. (2001). p.320
     This chapter discussed the role of women during the progressive era, 1890 to 1914, particularly African American women. I used this source to discuss how temperance groups grew to also fight lynching. 

http://newsbusters.org/blogs/nathan-roush/2013/07/19/blogger-mychal-denzel-smith-equates-zimmerman-defense-justifying-lynch
     In this article and video it is apparent that the illegitimate and manipulative tactics of having to protect white women used by white men as reason for lynching is believed to still be used in some modern criminal cases, such as the recent Zimmerman case in Florida.

http://www.tshaonline.org/handbook/online/articles/via01
     The Association of Southern Women for the Prevention of Lynching was founded in Atlanta, Georigia in 1930 by Jessie Daniel Ames. While the group sought to gain the support of white women in Mississippi, Georgia, Texas, Louisiana, and Florida, the southern states with the most frequent accounts of lynching, their activies were done in a limited manner. They regulated their membership exclusively to white women, believing this was the best stategy for promoting the attention of the white women they were trying to reach.

http://www.southernstudies.org/2013/03/from-the-southern-exposure-archives-women-and-lynching.html
     This article is published by The Institute for Southern Studies, a nonprofit public charity devoted to providing history on the national importance of the South and its impact on civil rights through reputable research. This page briefly mentions the involvement of Ida B. Wells, but mainly focuses on the progress of Jessie Daniel Ames and The Association of Southern Women for the Prevention of Lynching. It explains how the Association's influence spread and the motivation and importance behind their focus on educating southern white women.


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  1. this is a useful sight for History A-level coursework as finding sources is hard. there is a range not only to use in it but learn from.

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