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Cynthia A. Johnson (born August 19, 1958) is an American politician who served as a member of the Michigan House of Representatives from the 5th district from 2019 to 2022. Early life and education [ edit ]
In the New York Age, James Weldon Johnson described the members of the lynch mob as "lower than any other people who at present inhabit the earth". [51] Although many southern newspapers had previously defended lynching as a defense of civilized society, after Washington's death, they avoided casting the practice in such terms. [ 52 ]
Bachman was accused of leaving a race-based and politically motivated death threat for then-Michigan state Rep. Cynthia Johnson, D-Detroit, in June 2021. She was charged in March 2022.
Carr, Cynthia, Our Town: A Heartland Lynching, A Haunted Town, and the Hidden History of White America, (Random House, 2007). Madison, James. A Lynching in the Heartland: Race and Memory in America (New York: St. Martin's Press, 2000). ISBN 0-312-23902-5. online review; Myrdal, Gunnar. An American Dilemma, (Harper and Brothers, 1944).
A newspaper photo of the courtroom during the 1931 murder trial of Herbert Johnson. Seated, from left, are Deputy Sheriff Jesse Millspaw, defendant Herbert Johnson and Johnson's lawyer, Francis L ...
According to Ida B. Wells and the Tuskegee University, most lynching victims were accused of murder or attempted murder. Rape or attempted rape was the second most common accusation; such accusations were often pretexts for lynching black people who violated Jim Crow etiquette or engaged in economic competition with white people.
The lynching The tombstone of Mae Crow in Forsyth County's Pleasant Grove Cemetery. Three Black men were accused in 1912 of beating, raping and killing her, with little evidence.
C. Camoflauge; Lynching of John Carter; Sam Carter (lynching victim) Philando Castile; Octavius Catto; Timothy Caughman; James Chaney; Murder of Johnnie Mae Chappell