1 10 37 http://songswithoutwords.org/files/original/540e6051458a35873d764c26c3eb2f36.png 425d12280a0157491ed62ecd9767b35f Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource "A Song Without Words" Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource <a title="Henry J. Lewis" href="http://songswithoutwords.org/items/show/193">Henry J. Lewis</a> Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived <a title="Indianapolis Freeman" href="http://songswithoutwords.org/items/show/199">Indianapolis Freeman</a> Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available <a title="George L. Knox" href="http://songswithoutwords.org/items/show/198">George L. Knox</a> Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource November 2, 1895 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context 126 Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 2013-06-19 04:54:38 Title A name given to the resource "A Song Without Words" Description An account of the resource On the eve of local elections in 1895, the <a title="Indianapolis Freeman" href="http://songswithoutwords.org/items/show/199">Indianapolis Freeman</a> printed a previously-published drawing by the late political cartoonist <a title="Henry J. Lewis" href="http://songswithoutwords.org/items/show/193">Henry J. Lewis</a>, entited "A Song Without Words." The drawing used inserts within the larger frame to tell the story of a lynching by hanging (1), shooting (2) and fire (3). The persistence of Lewis's artwork after the transition from the editorship of Democratic-leaning independent <a title="Edward E. Cooper" href="http://songswithoutwords.org/items/show/200">Edward E. Cooper</a> to that of Republican <a title="George L. Knox" href="http://songswithoutwords.org/items/show/198">George L. Knox</a>, demonstrates that the paper's visual themes--of organizing, political activism and the vote--transcended political party affiliation. Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource owproject Edward E. Cooper Henry J. Lewis images Indianapolis Freeman lynching http://songswithoutwords.org/files/original/ba943c1cbf433e7890e12a8180fb51b4.png 780f9a39b0983dbb95e2649b4e28aae5 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource "Editor [Manly] and the Office of the Wilmington Record" Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived <a title="Indianapolis Freeman" href="http://songswithoutwords.org/items/show/199">Indianapolis Freeman</a> Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available <a title="George L. Knox" href="http://songswithoutwords.org/items/show/198">George L. Knox</a> Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource November 26, 1898 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource All Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context 80 Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 2013-06-17 17:33:32 Title A name given to the resource "Editor Manly" Description An account of the resource When editor Alexander Manly challenged the rape/lynching narrative in his paper, the Wilmington Record, a white mob destroyed his press, forced him to leave town, and murdered others in a two-day massacre. In protest, the <a title="Indianapolis Freeman" href="http://songswithoutwords.org/items/show/199">Indianapolis Freeman</a> published an image of Manly’s burning press beside a column that criticized President William McKinley for his unwillingness to criticize the destruction. Type The nature or genre of the resource Post Alexander Manly images Indianapolis Freeman President William McKinley Wilmington Record http://songswithoutwords.org/files/original/f318da9fc4fc1878e330adc211587b87.png 169a97827156d532b74cb8dac16448ca Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource "Ethiopia to Uncle Sam" Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource H.J.L [<a title="Henry J. Lewis" href="http://songswithoutwords.org/items/show/193">Henry J. Lewis</a>] Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived <a title="Indianapolis Freeman" href="http://songswithoutwords.org/items/show/199">Indianapolis Freeman</a> Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available <a title="Edward E. Cooper" href="http://songswithoutwords.org/items/show/200">Edward E. Cooper</a> Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource September 21, 1889 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context 377 Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 2013-07-09 15:43:28 Title A name given to the resource "Ethiopia to Uncle Sam" Description An account of the resource This drawing in the <a title="Indianapolis Freeman" href="http://songswithoutwords.org/items/show/199">Indianapolis Freeman</a> shows Uncle Sam standing impotently before a robed figure, Ethiopia, as she gestures toward the shooting of innocent African American men and women, and a burning church. “See how my people are murdered, maltreated and outraged in the South,” Ethiopia says, “and you, with a great army and navy, are taking no measures to prevent it.” Ethiopia was a recurring figure in Freeman iconography, who represented strong advocacy of equal protection and due process. Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource owproject African-Americans Edward E. Cooper Ethiopia Henry J. Lewis images Indianapolis Freeman lynching Uncle Sam http://songswithoutwords.org/files/original/2feaaa95a4e3c3f9bcfddc4b7527c6a3.png 1c19548df8a07f6d6fd81b527a6cbbe5 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource "Fair Ohio in Disgrace" Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived <a title="Indianapolis Freeman" href="http://songswithoutwords.org/items/show/199">Indianapolis Freeman</a> Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available <a title="George L. Knox" href="http://songswithoutwords.org/items/show/198">George L. Knox</a> Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource June 12, 1897 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context 103 Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 2013-06-20 18:19:05 Title A name given to the resource "Fair Ohio in Disgrace" Description An account of the resource In spring of 1897 African American editors were outraged when President William McKinley ignored the lynching of an Ohio man, “Click” Mitchell. In somewhat sensational style, the <a title="Indianapolis Freeman" href="http://songswithoutwords.org/items/show/199">Indianapolis Freeman</a> depicted the mob scene, with insets showing the prisoner being removed from jail and lynched. The <a title="The Richmond Planet" href="http://songswithoutwords.org/items/show/204">Richmond Planet</a> noted in its own pages that the unmasked lynchers had murdered the innocent Mitchell in broad daylight: “No lynching in the South was ever more daring or atrocious.” Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource owproject Click Mitchell George L. Knox images Indianapolis Freeman lynching Ohio President William McKinley http://songswithoutwords.org/files/original/f2e53d86b55930a149b50055844fa8d2.png c9f71df8fb0e5183c691acdce171afef Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource "Firing at Long Range" Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource <a title="John Mitchell, Jr." href="http://songswithoutwords.org/items/show/203">John Mitchell, Jr.</a> Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived <a title="The Richmond Planet" href="http://songswithoutwords.org/items/show/204">Richmond Planet</a> Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available <a title="John Mitchell, Jr." href="http://songswithoutwords.org/items/show/203">John Mitchell, Jr.</a> Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource February 2, 1895 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context 114 Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 2013-06-23 03:35:21 Title A name given to the resource "Firing at Long Range." Description An account of the resource This drawing by <a title="The Richmond Planet" href="http://songswithoutwords.org/items/show/204">Richmond Planet</a> editor <a title="John Mitchell, Jr." href="http://songswithoutwords.org/items/show/203">John Mitchell, Jr.</a>, drew attention to <a title="Ida B. Wells" href="http://songswithoutwords.org/items/show/202">Ida B. Wells</a>’s success in bringing British attention to American inaction in the face of southern lynching. The drawing shows the cannon of British public opinion “Firing at Long Range” across the ocean at the United States. The drawing places Wells’s efforts in the larger context of the war over public opinion, a shaming action necessary given government officials’ failure of will. Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource owproject Ida B. Wells images John Mitchell Jr. lynching President Grover Cleveland Richmond Planet http://songswithoutwords.org/files/original/457329045b20b76a22847397a207c2e6.png 08790ddfed996595b06a0ae8a40786a4 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource "Free (?) America" Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived <a title="Northwestern Recorder" href="http://songswithoutwords.org/items/show/195">Northwestern Recorder</a> Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available [Publisher, Jones & Brown] Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource March 1893 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context 101 Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 2013-06-30 18:07:04 Title A name given to the resource "Free (?) America" Description An account of the resource The gruesome lynching of a mentally disabled man, Henry Smith in Paris, Texas, in February 1893, sparked renewed visual critique in the African American press regarding federal inaction on lynching. The mob’s torture of Henry Smith seemed to contradict the nation’s values, these editors believed. “Free (?) America” quipped the terse, sarcastic caption to an illustration of Smith’s torture in Wisconsin’s <a title="Northwestern Recorder" href="http://songswithoutwords.org/items/show/195">Northwestern Recorder</a>. Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource owproject Henry Smith images lynching mob violence Northwestern Recorder http://songswithoutwords.org/files/original/79b74b0aa6cccf2dc751ac0aebe8da86.png 7785c14bc6400eb42a384c6441e90c24 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource "Horrible" Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived <a title="Cleveland Gazette" href="http://songswithoutwords.org/items/show/197">Cleveland Gazette</a> Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available <a title="Harry C. Smith" href="http://songswithoutwords.org/items/show/196">Harry C. Smith</a> Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource April 7, 1894 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context 27 Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 2013-06-27 06:08:05 Title A name given to the resource "Horrible!" Description An account of the resource In spring 1894, the <a title="Cleveland Gazette" href="http://songswithoutwords.org/items/show/197">Cleveland Gazette</a> published this rare lynching image to protest the murder of Roscoe Parker, in West Union, Ohio. The paper included a simple pen-and-ink drawing of Parker’s lynched body—with the white mob sketched in the bottom left of the frame—but placed Parker’s portrait higher up to emphasize his humanity and retain dignity. The Ohio lynching made clear that lynching was a national problem, not confined to the South, and a federal response was necessary to quell the violence. Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource owproject Cleveland Gazette Harry C. Smith images lynching Roscoe Parker violence http://songswithoutwords.org/files/original/c7e11c0adc39a1fdfc308de774bd7d97.jpg cc2581960ba28d2a91d68b5f12a19951 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource "Lynched" Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived <a title="The Richmond Planet" href="http://songswithoutwords.org/items/show/204">Richmond Planet</a> Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available <a title="John Mitchell, Jr." href="http://songswithoutwords.org/items/show/203">John Mitchell, Jr.</a> Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource June 23, 1894 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context 99 Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 2013-06-28 17:58:21 Title A name given to the resource "Lynched" Description An account of the resource Like journalists Jesse Duke and <a title="Ida B. Wells" href="http://songswithoutwords.org/items/show/202">Ida B. Wells</a>, <a title="The Richmond Planet" href="http://songswithoutwords.org/items/show/204">Richmond Planet</a> editor <a title="John Mitchell, Jr." href="http://songswithoutwords.org/items/show/203">John Mitchell, Jr.</a>, had braved mob retaliation for defending an African American man from a rape charge, and challenged the increase in lynching actively. In 1894, for example, Mitchell organized a lecture for Isaac Jenkins, who was the lone survivor following mob violence against African Americans in Clifton Forge, Virginia, in 1891, and included a postcard from that lynching within the frame of the advertisement. Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource owproject African-Americans images Isaac Jenkins John Mitchell Jr. lynching Richmond Planet Virginia http://songswithoutwords.org/files/original/f0b207bb78d0f3e418c1531385ccd3b0.png f165571f696491d5dc0dbc99bf49d18f Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource "Not Guilty" Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived <a title="Cleveland Gazette" href="http://songswithoutwords.org/items/show/197">Cleveland Gazette</a> Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available <a title="Harry C. Smith" href="http://songswithoutwords.org/items/show/196">Harry C. Smith</a> Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource October 2, 1897 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context 37 Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 2013-06-18 06:50:50 Title A name given to the resource "Not Guilty" Description An account of the resource Following the lynching of "Click" Mitchell in spring of 1897, African American editors criticized both President William McKinley’s silence, and Booker T. Washington’s suggestion that lynch victims were “invariably vagrants”—troublemakers who deserved their fate. Many African American newspapers expressed outrage that lynch law, in accepting the accusations of the lynchers without due process for the accused, violated fundamental tenets of American and English legal tradition. The <a title="Cleveland Gazette" href="http://songswithoutwords.org/items/show/197">Cleveland Gazette</a> used few illustrations generally; here, the “Not Guilty” headline, combined with a portrait of Click Mitchell while alive, emphasized the travesty of justice inherent in mob violence. Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource owproject Booker T. Washington Click Mitchell images Ku Klux Klan lynching President William McKinley http://songswithoutwords.org/files/original/a06f8a6c9136718acc0558a95f653ba3.png 6dd47a83939b5cbe21dc039c844bc377 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource "Notice!" Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource [<a title="Henry J. Lewis" href="http://songswithoutwords.org/items/show/193">Henry J. Lewis</a>] Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived <a title="Indianapolis Freeman" href="http://songswithoutwords.org/items/show/199">Indianapolis Freeman</a> Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available <a title="George L. Knox" href="http://songswithoutwords.org/items/show/198">George L. Knox</a> Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource August 11, 1894 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context 124 Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 2013-06-26 04:46:05 Title A name given to the resource "Notice" Description An account of the resource As editor, <a title="George L. Knox" href="http://songswithoutwords.org/items/show/198">George L. Knox</a> re-printed a drawing by the late political cartoonist <a title="Henry J. Lewis" href="http://songswithoutwords.org/items/show/193">Henry J. Lewis</a> in the formerly independent <a title="Indianapolis Freeman" href="http://songswithoutwords.org/items/show/199">Indianapolis </a><a title="Indianapolis Freeman" href="http://songswithoutwords.org/items/show/199">Freeman</a> to chide the National Negro Democratic Convention meeting in that city in August 1894. "Gentlemen," reads the caption, "cannot you persuade the white members of your party South, to cease these persecutions of your brethren?" At the time, the Southern branch of the Democratic party remained hostile to voting and civil rights for African Americans. While some African Americans in the Northwest were moving away from the Republican Party, which they saw as failing to protect those rights, this cartoon made clear that the Democrats offered no refuge for African American voters. Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource owproject civil rights Democratic National Conference George L. Knox Henry J. Lewis Ida B. Wells images Indianapolis Freeman Ku Klux Klan lynching.