Lynching and Mob Violence in Ohio, 1772-1938 - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Lynching and Mob Violence in Ohio, 1772-1938 write by David Meyers. This book was released on 2018-11-27. Lynching and Mob Violence in Ohio, 1772-1938 available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. In the late 19th century Ohio was reeling from a wave of lynchings and other acts of racially motivated mob violence. Many of these acts were attributed to well-known and respected men and women yet few of them were ever prosecuted--some were even lauded for taking the law into their own hands. In 1892, Ohio-born Benjamin Harrison was the first U.S. President to call for anti-lynching legislation. Four years later, his home state responded with the Smith Act "for the Suppression of Mob Violence." One of the most severe anti-lynching laws in the country, it was a major step forward, though it did little to address the underlying causes of racial intolerance and distrust of law enforcement. Chronicling hundreds of acts of mob violence in Ohio, this book explores the acts themselves, their motivations and the law's response to them.
Lynching and Mob Violence in Ohio, 1772-1938
Lynching and Mob Violence in Ohio, 1772-1938 - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Lynching and Mob Violence in Ohio, 1772-1938 write by David Meyers. This book was released on 2018-11-20. Lynching and Mob Violence in Ohio, 1772-1938 available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. In the late 19th century Ohio was reeling from a wave of lynchings and other acts of racially motivated mob violence. Many of these acts were attributed to well-known and respected men and women yet few of them were ever prosecuted--some were even lauded for taking the law into their own hands. In 1892, Ohio-born Benjamin Harrison was the first U.S. President to call for anti-lynching legislation. Four years later, his home state responded with the Smith Act "for the Suppression of Mob Violence." One of the most severe anti-lynching laws in the country, it was a major step forward, though it did little to address the underlying causes of racial intolerance and distrust of law enforcement. Chronicling hundreds of acts of mob violence in Ohio, this book explores the acts themselves, their motivations and the law's response to them.
What Can We Learn from the Great Depression?
What Can We Learn from the Great Depression? - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook What Can We Learn from the Great Depression? write by Dana Frank. This book was released on 2024-10-08. What Can We Learn from the Great Depression? available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Four stories of resilience, mutual aid, and radical rebellion that will transform how we understand the Great Depression Drawing on little-known stories of working people, What Can We Learn from the Great Depression? amplifies voices that have been long omitted from standard histories of the Depression era. In four tales, Professor Dana Frank explores how ordinary working people in the US turned to collective action to meet the crisis of the Great Depression and what we can learn from them today. Readers are introduced to * the 7 daring Black women who worked as wet nurses and staged a sit-down strike to demand better pay and an end to racial discrimination * the groups who used mutual aid, cooperatives, eviction protests, and demands for government relief to meet their basic needs * the million Mexican and Mexican American repatriados who were erased from mainstream historical memory, while (often fictitious) white “Dust Bowl migrants” became enshrined * the Black Legion, a white supremacist fascist organization that saw racism, antisemitism, anti-Catholicism, and fascism as the cure to the Depression While capitalism crashed during the Great Depression, racism did not and was, in fact, wielded by some to blame and oppress their neighbors. Patriarchy persisted, too, undermining the power of social movements and justifying women’s marginalization within them. For other ordinary people, collective action gave them the means to survive and fight against such hostilities. What resulted were powerful new forms of horizontal reciprocity and solidarity that allowed people to provide each other with the bread, beans, and comradeship of daily life. The New Deal, when it arrived, provided vital resources to many, but others were cut off from its full benefits, especially if they were women or people of color. What Can We Learn from the Great Depression? shows us how we might look to the past to think about how we can shape the future of our own failed economy. These lessons can also help us imagine and build movements to challenge such an economy—and to transform the state as a whole—in service to the common good without replicating racism and patriarchy.
A Murder in Amish Ohio
A Murder in Amish Ohio - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook A Murder in Amish Ohio write by David Meyers. This book was released on 2021-03-01. A Murder in Amish Ohio available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. In the summer of 1957, a young Holmes County farmer was gunned down in cold blood. There was little to distinguish this slaying from hundreds of others throughout the United States that year except for one detail: Paul Coblentz was Amish. A committed pacifist, Coblentz would not raise a hand against his killers. As sensational crimes often do, the "Amish murder" opened a window into the private lives of the young man, his family and his community--a community that in some respects remains as enigmatic today as it was more than half a century ago. Authors of Wicked Columbus, Ohio's Black Hand Syndicate and others, David Meyers and Elise Meyers Walker unravel the intricacies surrounding one of Ohio's most intriguing murder cases.
Historic Black Settlements of Ohio
Historic Black Settlements of Ohio - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Historic Black Settlements of Ohio write by David Meyers. This book was released on 2020-02-03. Historic Black Settlements of Ohio available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. In the years leading up to the Civil War, Ohio had more African American settlements than any other state. Owing to a common border with several slave states, it became a destination for people of color seeking to separate themselves from slavery. Despite these communities having populations that sometimes numbered in the hundreds, little is known about most of them, and by the beginning of the twentieth century, nearly all had lost their ethnic identities as the original settlers died off and their descendants moved away. Save for scattered cemeteries and an occasional house or church, they have all but been erased from Ohio's landscape. Father-daughter coauthors David Meyers and Elise Meyers Walker piece together the stories of more than forty of these black settlements.
