The Helios Biblios Hour : Lynching -#me-too w/ Jacqueline Clay Chester

Jacqueline Clay Chester a talent model, writer, playwright, artist, actor, sculptor, spoken wordperformer, author! In short, #MeToo has been such a big catalyst for what looks every day more like the emergence of a new feminist movement, because it speaks to women across the class, race and sexuality divides.The movement points to the fact that sexual harassment and violence in many ways functions as a "great equalizer" among women because the overwhelming majority of us have experienced it in some form, regardless of our backgrounds.From 1882-1968, 4,743 lynchings occurred in the United States. Of these people that were lynched 3,446 were black. The blacks lynched accounted for 72.7% of the people lynched. These numbers seem large, but it is known that not all of the lynchings were ever recorded. Out of the 4,743 people lynched only 1,297 white people were lynched. That is only 27.3%. Many of the whites lynched were lynched for helping the black or being anti lynching and even for domestic crimes.The word lynching and its related verb, lynch, come from Captain William Lynch,who took control of imposing and policing order in Virginia during the Revolutionary War . putting a person to death by mob action without due process of law. court judge named Charles Lynch.who was known to have regularly imprisoned British loyalists without a trial. Because they were never given a trial, and he didn't have the authority to imprison them, the practice became known as 'lynching'.