1. Social Justice Continued.
Lynching and Lenticular Logic

2. Review: Social Justice
We discussed yesterday that Social Justice is the equitable distribution of opportunities and privileges across all people.
This is something that we are still trying to achieve across all groups of people, to this very day.

3. History of “Justice” in the US
Historically, “Justice” was not equal across racial divides, as we saw in Wells’ texts.
In fact, many African American men were lynched for crimes that they did not commit, such as the rape of white women.
Lynching was quite prevalent during and after slavery- continuing on into the 20th century.

4. Lynching
In fact, lynching became such a normal mode of “justice”, that it almost like a celebration.
White mobs would storm jails: beating, burning and cutting up victims before, during and after they were hung.
The mobs and their families were even known to hold picnics and send pictures of the lynched individual, or body parts cut from a corpse, to loved ones as souvenirs.

5. How Do we know about lynch mobs?
Because the images, post cards and souvenirs still exist to this very day.
Originally an item of white supremacy, the story these photographs tell have now changed.

6. Lenticular Logic
“A schema by which histories or images that are actually copresent get presented so that only one of the images can be seen at a time.” – p. 7, Reconstructing Dixie by Tara McPherson
In other words, history is often told only through one perspective or narrative at a time.
If we want to know the true history, we have to combine all the narratives into a cohesive whole, as we will now see Allen and Littlefield attempt to do on