Today what i would like to talk about is the way in which women themselves participated in that dialogue. Some people want to know what have,uthern white women particularly in the 1890s when it was at its height. How did black women begin to critique the systematic violence perpetrated against their brothers, fathers and friends. In this lecture, im going to spend time comparing a woman name Rebecca Latin america felton with ida b wells. Largely the lecture will be on ida b wells. Let me just give you a little bit of reminder about what we examined when it came to lynching. Two or three black southerners were lynched per week whether they were burned or mutilated or shot, we examined how those lynchings are ritualistic, and they follow a certain pattern. We look at the ethical nature of lynching and how it became a southern phenomenon. We looked at the entire Cottage Industry of photographs sold as souvenirs, the way these photographs were made into postcards. People were posing in the
More land. It was efficient to those products laterally. That started changing and the huge vertical mills were inefficient and eventually they were abandoned. In greenville during the textile era from the late 1800s through 60s, there the were two distinct classes. You have the Business Community or White Community that were the owners and doctors, lawyers, that kind of thing. And then you had the whocanamerican community were occupied in terrorist businesses but they were not involved in the textile industry early on. And then you have the textile community. And a lot of people referred to them as lead heads. People for almost a segregated as the africanamericans. It was interesting. That by the 1940s, world war ii, almost 75 of the population of greenville was involved in a textile business. 1945eep in mind during this was the General Motors of the south in textiles. Almost 65 of all the canvas and for tops and gun covers are made right here. Most of the uniforms were made right her