On October 21, 1921, President Warren G. Harding delivers a speech in Alabama in which he condemns lynchings—extrajudicial murders (usually hangings) committed primarily by white supremacists against Black Americans in the Deep South.
Although his administration was much maligned for scandal and corruption, Harding was a progressive Republican politician who advocated full civil rights for African Americans and suffrage for women. He supported the Dyer Anti-lynching Bill in 1920. As a presidential candidate that year, he gained support for his views on women’s suffrage, but faced intense opposition on civil rights for African Americans. The 1920s was a period of intense racism in the American South, characterized by frequent lynchings. In fact, the NAACP (National Association for the Advancement of Colored People) reported that, in 1920, lynching claimed, on average, the lives of two African Americans every week.
During the 1920 presidential campaign, Harding’s ethnicity became a subject of debate and was used by his opponents to cast him in a negative light. Opponents claimed that one of Harding’s great-great-grandfathers was a native of the West Indies. Harding rebuffed the rumors, saying he was from white “pioneer stock” and persisted in his support of anti-lynching laws. Although the anti-lynching bill made it through the House of Representatives, it died in the Senate. Several other attempts to pass similar laws in the first half of the 20th century failed. In fact, civil rights for Black Americans were not encoded into law until Lyndon Johnson signed the Civil Rights Act in 1964.
Harding’s public denunciation of lynching would appear insincere if one were to believe allegations that he had actually been inducted into the Ku Klux Klan while in office. In 1987, historian Wyn Wade published The Fiery Cross, in which a former Ku Klux Klan member claimed to have witnessed Harding’s initiation into the Klan on the White House lawn. Scholars have since pored over Harding’s papers, but have found no evidence to support this allegation.
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“…. in which he condemns lynchings—extrajudicial murders (usually hangings) committed primarily by white supremacists against Black Americans in the Deep South.” = bullshit
https://grimhappenings.com/march-14-1891-new-orleans-lynchings
SeeBee, If one reads the NYT both columnists and letter writers it appears that over 6 million blacks were lynched. I think the number was around 1500 total last I read. But yes all races have been hanged, usually because they had it coming to them and the law was absent. Groups have away of working things out when the law turns a blind eye to justice (except present day whites that have had 50+ years of guilt heaped on them that they don’t stand up for themselves).
I was just reading an opinion piece in the NYT about white racism by a guy named Cohen.
Inner city negroes kill more fellow negroes every year than were done in 50 years of lynchings by Whites.
I wonder if this applies to the CIA killing foreign leaders or the US military killing journalists or civilians ?
What did Lincoln say after he sobered up from a 5 day binge…………..
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I SET WHO FREE!!!!
Who would be more anti-lynching than the traitors among us?