Lynching Preachers: How Black Pastors Resisted Jim Crow and White Pastors Incited

[DGUtley]

Lynching Preachers: How Black Pastors Resisted Jim Crow and White Pastors Incited Racial Violence. Religion was no barrier for lynch mobs intent on terror. White pastors incited racial violence and took part in lynchings even though sometimes the victim was a preacher. --
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The National Memorial For Peace And Justice in Montgomery, Alabama,
commemorates the victims of lynching. Photo by Bob Miller / Getty Images.
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A funeral held in July 1945 for two victims of the Ku Klux Klan,
George Dorsey and his sister, Dorothy Dorsey Malcolm, of Walton County, Georgia,
held at the Mt. Perry Baptist Church Sunday. Photo from Bettman via Getty.

White lynch mobs in America murdered at least 4,467 people between 1883 and 1941, hanging, burning, dismembering, garroting and blowtorching their victims. Their violence was widespread but not indiscriminate: About 3,300 of the lynched were black, according to the most recent count by sociologists Charles Seguin and David Rigby. The remaining dead were white, Mexican, of Mexican descent, Native American, Chinese or Japanese. Such numbers, based on verifiable newspaper reports, represent a minimum. The full human toll of racial lynching may remain ever beyond reach.
Religion was no barrier for these white murderers, as I’ve discovered in my research on Christianity and lynch mobs in the Reconstruction-era South. White preachers incited racial violence, joined the Ku Klux Klan and lynched black people. Sometimes, the victim was a pastor.

This is the story.

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A white lynch mob in Shelbyville, Tennessee, in 1941.
Photo from Bettmann via Getty.


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[Safety]

Yep, and many preachers used the Bible and scripture to advocate for racial segregation/slavery. The real question is how many really died because we didn’t have social media then to report cases that doesn’t make it into the mainstream media.

[DGUtley]

Yep, and many preachers used the Bible and scripture to advocate for racial segregation/slavery. The real question is how many really died because we didn’t have social media then to report cases that doesn’t make it into the mainstream media.

Did you see that I bolded "represent a minimum" ?

I am a member of the Knights of Columbus, a Roman Catholic Fraternal Organization. One of our founding reasons was to defend Catholic Priests in the south that were being killed b/c they were performing mixed marriages. I've read stories that the Priests were attacked on the Altar. Now, we just try to good.

[roadmaster]

It's always been against the Bible to perform mixed marriages. A Christian should never marry another person who worships other gods. But it was never about color of ones skin. Lies or fables get into Churches, just like the many today that say, Christians will be gone when Trib happens, it's a lie. I am not responsible for these idiots that believe a movie (left behind) or the other that came out years ago that believe those instead of what the Bible says.

He says it 6 times in the Bible, AFTER trib, lift your heads for your redemption draws nigh. They will believe every opinion and everything outside the Bible for truth. If they are saved they have a rude awakening if Trib is around the corner. Useful idiots.

[Common]

Its common knowledge that religion not only wasnt a barrier but a catalyst for many horrific events in our past..

Lynchings the KKK hid behind religion and the salem which hunts were all in the name of God

Any organization any religion has those that prostitute the intent and translate it to perpetrate evil....

That does not make all religion or all religious bad people

[Mister D]

Its common knowledge that religion not only wasnt a barrier but a catalyst for many horrific events in our past..

Lynchings the KKK hid behind religion and the salem which hunts were all in the name of God

Any organization any religion has those that prostitute the intent and translate it to perpetrate evil....

That does not make all religion or all religious bad people

Really? Which ones? Certainly not lynching which, as far as it had anything to do with race and innocent people, was a product of racism and white supremacy.

The KKK was also a product of racism and white supremacy. The Salem Witch Trials happened over 300 years ago.

This is true. It happens.

Of course it doesn't.

[FindersKeepers]

Did you see that I bolded "represent a minimum" ?

I am a member of the Knights of Columbus, a Roman Catholic Fraternal Organization. One of our founding reasons was to defend Catholic Priests in the south that were being killed b/c they were performing mixed marriages. I've read stories that the Priests were attacked on the Altar. Now, we just try to good.

Hitler also used the Bible to justify ethnically cleansing against Jews.

Interesting you mention the Knights of Columbus.

I wonder how long until the name of that fraternity is changed.

[BenjaminO]

Really? Which ones? Certainly not lynching which, as far as it had anything to do with race and innocent people, was a product of racism and white supremacy.

The KKK was also a product of racism and white supremacy. The Salem Witch Trials happened over 300 years ago.

This is true. It happens.

Of course it doesn't.

From Dave's article above..."Religion was no barrier for these white murderers, as I’ve discovered in my research on Christianity and lynch mobs in the Reconstruction-era South. White preachers incited racial violence, joined the Ku Klux Klan and lynched black people."

Maybe you better go argue with the author of the article and convince him he's wrong.
When you get that from him get back to us and post his admission here.

[Mister D]

From Dave's article above..."Religion was no barrier for these white murderers, as I’ve discovered in my research on Christianity and lynch mobs in the Reconstruction-era South. White preachers incited racial violence, joined the Ku Klux Klan and lynched black people."

Maybe you better go argue with the author of the article and convince him he's wrong.
When you get that from him get back to us and post his admission here.

That's nice but lynching which, as far as it had anything to do with race and innocent people, was a product of racism and white supremacy. Secondly, the author isn't claiming what Common is claiming.

Sometimes I have to remember you're the guy who was shocked by segregation in 1971 long after it had actually ended.

[BenjaminO]

That's nice but lynching which, as far as it had anything to do with race and innocent people, was a product of racism and white supremacy. Secondly, the author isn't claiming what Common is claiming.

Sometimes I have to remember you're the guy who was shocked by segregation in 1971 long after it had actually ended.

I am compelled to ask if you were there at Fork Polk in 1971 when I was there.
I bet not.
Therefore you have no capability to have a valid opinion as to what I experienced at that time.