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
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
Collection
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.