Project Director

Ward, James A.

Department

Dept. of History

Publisher

University of Tennessee at Chattanooga

Place of Publication

Chattanooga (Tenn.)

Abstract

String him up! That command stirred a deadly chill in the hearts of hundreds of lynching victims and aroused violent emotion in the souls of countless bloodthirsty mobs throughout the Bible Belt South during the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. The South had su survived the Civil War physically, but the wound to its pride was so deep that more than Reconstruction was needed to heal the scar. The South had fought the North to preserve its unique way of life. Following the war Southerners fought each other in frustration and anger to protect their last hold on the old master-slave ideal. Many whites replaced slavery with a new form of control, robed and masked riders. Whites again invoked the power and sanction of Almighty God to bless and to assist their cause, even as they had done during the war, as they now sought to eliminate the Negroes as well as the new enemies --Catholics and Jews. The strongly emotional and religious South provided an ideal environment for the growth of racism and nativism which dominated the area during an era of violence perhaps unmatched in the history of America.

Degree

B. A.; An honors thesis submitted to the faculty of the University of Tennessee at Chattanooga in partial fulfillment of the requirements of the degree of Bachelor of Arts.

Date

11-1985

Subject

Lynching--Southern States; African Americans--Violence against; Racism--Religious aspects--Christianity; Mobs--Southern States--History; Southern States--Race relations--History

Discipline

United States History

Document Type

Theses

Extent

iii, 87 leaves

DCMI Type

Text

Language

English

Call Number

LB2369.5 .J324 1985

Rights

http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/InC/1.0/

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