"The Accused Men"
<p><span style="font-size: 13px;">When six white men gang-raped </span><span style="font-size: 13px;">an African American woman in Columbus, Ohio, the </span><a title="Cleveland Gazette" href="http://songswithoutwords.org/items/show/197"><em style="font-size: 13px;">Cleveland Gazette </em></a><span style="font-size: 13px;">published their profiles on its front page, providing something rarely seen in mainstream </span><span style="font-size: 13px;">newspaper accounts of interracial rape in the 1890s—the faces of white sexual criminals. </span><span style="font-size: 13px;">African American journalists </span><span style="font-size: 13px;">and cartoonists created such imagery t</span><span style="font-size: 13px;">o challenge the double standard in reporting, </span><span style="font-size: 13px;"> and emphasize the past and contemporary sexual violence against </span><span style="font-size: 13px;">African American women carried out by white men.</span></p>
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"Horrible!"
<span style="font-size: 13px;">In spring 1894, the </span><a title="Cleveland Gazette" href="http://songswithoutwords.org/items/show/197"><em style="font-size: 13px;">Cleveland Gazette</em></a><span style="font-size: 13px;"> published this rare lynching image to protest </span><span style="font-size: 13px;">the murder of Roscoe Parker, in West Union, Ohio. The paper includ</span><span style="font-size: 13px;">ed a simple pen-and-ink drawing of Parker’s lynched body—with the white mob </span><span style="font-size: 13px;">sketched in the bottom left of the frame—but placed Parker’s portrait higher up to emphasize his</span><span style="font-size: 13px;"> humanity and retain dignity. The Ohio lynching made clear that lynching </span><span style="font-size: 13px;">was a national problem, not confined to the South, and a federal response was </span><span style="font-size: 13px;">necessary to quell the violence.</span>
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