Making Utah History Press Coverage of the Robert Marshall Lynching, June 1925

• Published in: Lynching Beyond Dixie p. 132
• Main Authors: KIMBERLEY MANGUN, LARRY R. GERLACH
• Format: Book Chapter
• Language: English
• Published: University of Illinois Press 22.02.2013
• Subjects: African Americans; American minorities; Anthropology; Behavioral sciences; Christian philosophy; Christianity; Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints; Communications; Conflict; Conflict resolution; Criminal arrests; Criminal law; Criminal offenses; Ecclesiology; Ethnic groups; Ethnology; Government; Government officials; Government services; Governors; Homicide; Human behavior; Judicial decision making; Judicial panels; Judicial system; Juries; Killing; Law; Law enforcement; Law enforcement agencies; Law enforcement procedures; Lynchings; Murder; Political science; Reconciliation; Religion; Religious sects; Sheriffs departments; Social behavior; Social interaction; Social sciences; Spiritual belief systems; Telegrams; Violence; Written communication; Written correspondence
• ISBN: 0252037464; 9780252037467

Lynching claimed thousands of victims across the United States in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Many of these individuals, as graphically depicted inWithout Sanctuary, were African American men who lived in southern states.¹ Memphis journalist Ida B. Wells was the first to identify the underlying causes of lynching. In three long investigative pamphlets published between 1892 and 1900, she discussed how allegations of rape obscured the real reason behind the killings of black men: white rage over economic advances among a rising black middle class.² Lynching has received considerable scholarly and popular attention since Wells’s groundbreaking work. Most scholarship