Download or read book Black Lynching in the Promised Land written by Marilyn K. Howard and published by . This book was released on 1999 with total page 494 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Abstract: The purpose of this study is threefold. First, I wanted to tell the story of a long forgotten part of Ohio's history--the lynching of black men by white mobs. Second, I wanted to ascertain if the theory developed by historian Roberta Senechal de la Roche was correct: that the components of a lynching could be broken down and labeled, and that by doing so, it could be predicted whether a lynching was going to occur. The latter part of the aforementioned statement is important, for lynching is a premeditated crime. If the components of a particular lynching are known, perhaps that lynching can be averted. Third, I wanted to verify if the passage of the anti-lynching law of 1896--the so-called "Smith law," named after Harry C. Smith, a black newspaper owner and Republican state legislator from Cleveland, Ohio--was the reason that lynchings of black men tapered off and ceased altogether after 1916. Finally, I wanted to see if there was a definitive reason for which black men were lynched, be it sexual, economic, or racial.