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Lynching Of James Harvey And Joe Jordan
James Harvey and Joe Jordan were two African-American men who were lynched on July 1, 1922, in Liberty County, Georgia, Liberty County, Georgia (U.S. state), Georgia, United States. They were seized by a mob of about 50 people and hanged while being transported by police from Wayne County, Georgia, Wayne County to a jail in Savannah, Georgia, Savannah. Investigations by the NAACP showed that the police involved were complicit in their abduction by the mob. Twenty-two men were later indicted for the lynching, with four convicted. Background During the Summer of 1921, James Harvey and Joe Jordan, after hiking throughout the Deep South, had stopped in Wayne County, Georgia, Wayne County in southeast Georgia, performing several months of agricultural work. Eventually the two men got into an argument with their white American, white employer regarding their wages, with the employer refusing to pay them for their work. In September, following the quarrel, the employer's wife pressed ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jim Crow Laws
The Jim Crow laws were state and local laws enforcing racial segregation in the Southern United States. Other areas of the United States were affected by formal and informal policies of segregation as well, but many states outside the South had adopted laws, beginning in the late 19th century, banning discrimination in public accommodations and voting. Southern laws were enacted in the late 19th and early 20th centuries by white Southern Democrat-dominated state legislatures to disenfranchise and remove political and economic gains made by African Americans during the Reconstruction era. Jim Crow laws were enforced until 1965. In practice, Jim Crow laws mandated racial segregation in all public facilities in the states of the former Confederate States of America and in some others, beginning in the 1870s. Jim Crow laws were upheld in 1896 in the case of ''Plessy vs. Ferguson'', in which the Supreme Court laid out its "separate but equal" legal doctrine concerning faciliti ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
