Lynching in America

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“It is impossible to create a dual personality which will be on the one hand a fighting man toward the enemy, and on the other, a craven who will accept treatment as less than a man at home.” 1
Lynching in America: Targeting Black Veterans Equal Justice Initiative 122 Commerce Street Montgomery, Alabama 36104 334.269.1803 www.eji.org © 2016 by Equal Justice Initiative. All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced, modified, or distributed in any form or by any electronic or mechanical means without express prior written permission of Equal Justice Initiative (EJI). EJI is a nonprofit law organization with offices in Montgomery, Alabama. Opposite: At Benton Barracks, St. Louis, Missouri, circa 1865. (Library of Congress/Liljenquist Family Collection.) On the cover: Soldiers of the 369th Infantry who won the Croix de Guerre for gallantry in action, 1919. 1
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Page 5 and 6: Looky here, America What you done d
Page 7 and 8: From the end of the Civil War to th
Page 9 and 10: Many politicians feared that black
Page 11 and 12: Black Union soldiers included men w
Page 13 and 14: servitude and undermined a central
Page 15 and 16: or mulatto, not in the military ser
Page 17 and 18: locate their families and rebuild t
Page 19 and 20: the store and onto the street outsi
Page 21 and 22: The Legal Lynching of Sergeant Edga
Page 23 and 24: The 92nd and 93rd divisions, both d
Page 25 and 26: fighting back against the mobs incl
Page 27 and 28: In Congress, the fear that returnin
Page 29 and 30: Moore’s Ford Bridge On July 25, 1
Page 31 and 32: portent of what may be expected in
Page 33 and 34: having the people who see that this
Page 35 and 36: Lynching escalated in the post-war
Page 37 and 38: A black airman from New York City r
Page 39 and 40: Forseeable flaws in the administrat
Page 41 and 42: Veterans and Capital Punishment The
Page 43 and 44: On February 12, 1946, Isaac Woodard
Page 45 and 46: On August 17, 1946, less than two w
Page 47 and 48: Conclusion At age 81, a veteran att
Page 49 and 50: MASSACRE: THE NEW ORLEANS RACE RIOT
Page 51 and 52: 55. MARK SCHNEIDER, “WE RETURN FI
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97. Williams, supra note 3, at 235-
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Acknowledgments This report was wri
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