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"Silenced the Witnesses"
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<a title="John Mitchell, Jr." href="http://songswithoutwords.org/items/show/203">John Mitchell, Jr.</a>
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<a title="The Richmond Planet" href="http://songswithoutwords.org/items/show/204"><em>Richmond Planet</em></a>
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<a title="John Mitchell, Jr." href="http://songswithoutwords.org/items/show/203">John Mitchell, Jr.</a>
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March 16, 1895
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110
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2013-06-21 03:22:21
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"Silenced The Witnesses!"
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In this image in the <em><a title="The Richmond Planet" href="http://songswithoutwords.org/items/show/204">Richmond Planet</a>,</em> editor and artist <a title="John Mitchell, Jr." href="http://songswithoutwords.org/items/show/203">John Mitchell, Jr.</a>, highlighted the double standard in suppressing reporting and legal prosecution of sexual crimes against African American girls and women. Speculating on the reasons for the disappearance of the two witnesses in the trial of Thomas Penn, a white man accused of raping a 10-year-old African American girl, Lina Hanna, the drawing shows two empty graves and explicitly states: “Dead folks tell no tales. Absent witnesses cannot testify.”
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John Mitchell
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Lina Hanna
Richmond Planet
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"White Men to the Rescue"
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<a title="John Mitchell, Jr." href="http://songswithoutwords.org/items/show/203">John Mitchell, Jr.</a>
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<a title="The Richmond Planet" href="http://songswithoutwords.org/items/show/204"><em>Richmond Planet</em></a>
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<a title="John Mitchell, Jr." href="http://songswithoutwords.org/items/show/203">John Mitchell, Jr.</a>
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February 23, 1895
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112
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2013-06-22 03:30:01
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"White Men To The Rescue"
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More conciliatory than his other drawings, this illustration by <a title="The Richmond Planet" href="http://songswithoutwords.org/items/show/204"><em>Richmond Planet</em></a> editor <a title="John Mitchell, Jr." href="http://songswithoutwords.org/items/show/203">John Mitchell, Jr.</a>, applauded liberal whites for their efforts to thwart lynching and enforce law and order, and thereby contribute to southern economic progress. “Lawlessness cripples business, and drives away capital,” the caption reads, in an argument for state rather than federal government action. “Colored men’s prayers are answered. Liberal-minded white men are coming to the rescue."
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John Mitchell
Jr.
Ku Klux Klan
lynching
Richmond Planet
white men
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"Firing at Long Range"
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<a title="John Mitchell, Jr." href="http://songswithoutwords.org/items/show/203">John Mitchell, Jr.</a>
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<a title="The Richmond Planet" href="http://songswithoutwords.org/items/show/204"><em>Richmond Planet</em></a>
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<a title="John Mitchell, Jr." href="http://songswithoutwords.org/items/show/203">John Mitchell, Jr.</a>
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February 2, 1895
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114
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2013-06-23 03:35:21
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"Firing at Long Range."
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This drawing by <em><a title="The Richmond Planet" href="http://songswithoutwords.org/items/show/204">Richmond Planet</a> </em>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.
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Ida B. Wells
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John Mitchell
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lynching
President Grover Cleveland
Richmond Planet
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"Prays for His Persecutors"
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<a title="John Mitchell, Jr." href="http://songswithoutwords.org/items/show/203">John Mitchell, Jr.</a>
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<a title="The Richmond Planet" href="http://songswithoutwords.org/items/show/204"><em>Richmond Planet</em></a>
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<a title="John Mitchell, Jr." href="http://songswithoutwords.org/items/show/203">John Mitchell, Jr.</a>
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January 19, 1895
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15
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2013-06-25 17:17:06
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Prays For His Persecutors
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In early 1895, <a title="The Richmond Planet" href="http://songswithoutwords.org/items/show/204"><em>Richmond Planet</em></a> editor <a title="John Mitchell, Jr." href="http://songswithoutwords.org/items/show/203">John Mitchell, Jr.</a>, published a series of his own drawings, beginning with this illustration “Prays for His Persecutors.” The image depicts an African American man kneeling in prayer against a backdrop of lynched bodies, a reference to a recent murder of six men in Tennessee. The man appears forgiving, even saintly, despite the violent backdrop. The least confrontational cartoon from this series, it invokes non-threatening protest against violence. Like a popular “Day of Prayer and Fasting” three years earlier, the drawing appealed to the conscience of observers and urged the federal government to offer support and protection.
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John Mitchell Jr.
lynching
Richmond Planet
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"Lynched"
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<a title="The Richmond Planet" href="http://songswithoutwords.org/items/show/204">Richmond Planet</a>
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<a title="John Mitchell, Jr." href="http://songswithoutwords.org/items/show/203">John Mitchell, Jr.</a>
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June 23, 1894
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99
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2013-06-28 17:58:21
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"Lynched"
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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"><em>Richmond Planet</em></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.
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African-Americans
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Isaac Jenkins
John Mitchell Jr.
lynching
Richmond Planet
Virginia
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"Richmond Planet" banner
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<em><span style="font-size: 11px; line-height: 1.5;" data-mce-mark="1">Richmond Planet</span></em><br />May 11, 1895
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409
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2013-09-10 16:12:34
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The Richmond Planet
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The <em>Richmond Planet </em>was founded in 1883 by thirteen former slaves, in the city of Richmond, Virginia. This four page (sometimes eight page) weekly was an independent newspaper that focused on African American civil rights in the post-Reconstruction era. Agitation for voting rights, protests against lynching and denunciations of the Ku Klux Klan filled the paper's pages. <a title="John Mitchell, Jr." href="http://songswithoutwords.org/items/show/203">John Mitchell, Jr.</a>, formerly the Richmond correspondent to the New York <em>Freeman</em>,took over as the <em>Planet's </em>editor in 1884. Politically independent, the paper continued publication through 1938, when it merged with the <em>Afro-American</em>.
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John Mitchell Jr.
Richmond Planet
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<a title="Cleveland Gazette" href="http://songswithoutwords.org/items/show/197"><em>Cleveland Gazette</em></a><br />May 16, 1891
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412
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2013-09-10 16:25:00
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John Mitchell, Jr.
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John Mitchell, Jr., was a newspaper editor, amateur illustrator and political leader in Richmond, Virginia in the late-nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. He began his career as the Richmond correspondent for the New York <em>Freeman</em>, and took over the editorship of the <a title="The Richmond Planet" href="http://songswithoutwords.org/items/show/204"><em>Richmond Planet</em></a> in 1884. In 1891, early journalism historian I. Garland Penn called Mitchell a "[b]old and fearless writer almost to a fault," whose "forte as an editor [was] to battle against outrages perpetrated upon his people in the South." Mitchell was elected to the Richmond City Council in 1888, but remained the <em>Planet's </em>editor through the 1890s. Under Mitchell's editorship, the <em>Planet </em>was an independent critic of moderation. He died in 1929, a penniless man.
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John Mitchell Jr.
Richmond Planet