News article on race riot threats in Memphis, Tennessee, following the lynching of a Black woman and her baby are placed next to advertisement for lingerie

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Title

News article on race riot threats in Memphis, Tennessee, following the lynching of a Black woman and her baby are placed next to advertisement for lingerie

Date

1967-08-06

Type

Text

Publisher

NewspaperARCHIVE.com

Description

Placement of an article about the lynching of a Black woman and her baby in Memphis, Tennessee, with threats of racial unrest and massacre in Memphis next to an advertisement directly targeting and titillatingly depicting undressed young women returning to Texas Woman's University in one month. This section of Denton Record-Chronicle exemplifies the sexualization of lynching and the treatment of Black and white female bodies in popular discourse surrounding racial unrest and lynching.

Creator

Denton Record-Chronicle

Citation

Denton Record-Chronicle, "News article on race riot threats in Memphis, Tennessee, following the lynching of a Black woman and her baby are placed next to advertisement for lingerie," Rethinking Violence, August 6, 1967, accessed July 8, 2024, http://rethinkingviolence.com/items/show/711.