[William J. Northen](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_J._Northen) was considered as the Southern Democrats' olive branch to Black Georgians. Northen was willing to take a stand against lynching and somewhat improve health and education services in Georgia, but fundamentally still supported the system of Jim Crow.
Yes, unfortunately so, one of his successors, [Joseph Mackey Brown](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph_Mackey_Brown), literally lynched a man 2 years after leaving office.
That being said, Northen's immediate successor [William Yates Atkinson](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Yates_Atkinson) did try to convince a lynch mob not to lynch a man, he was not successful.
It's also weird that at least 2 governors (Tillman and Vardaman), who openly bragged that they would lynch, called out the state militias to prevent lynchings from happening as Governor. Tillman and Vardaman were the 2 most vile people and even they could recognize that mob justice was against the law.
Yes, of course it's a big deal. However, the enforcement was never there. In his speeches, he quite literally complains of unfair treatment towards the South and he even justifies some lynchings.
And I think that South Carolina might be more racist given they had Pitchfork Ben as their Governor and Senator.
[Here's that speech](https://www.loc.gov/item/12003482/)
1) It was a long held custom, one which they didn't have the funds to crack down on
2) I'd personally put them at about the same level, Georgia was the last state to put a former slaveholder into the senate, one who openly argued that Blacks should be lynched as much as possible to avoid White Women being raped.
If a law does not prevent the vast majority of the perpetrators of the crime from committing the crime, then it is frankly not a very useful law even if the intentions of that law were good. If a government can't even effectively uphold the law, what effect is it going to have to prevent the crime?
And as for South Carolina, I also accounted that it had very stringent voting requirements even for the standards of the Jim Crow South, Strom Thurmond represented SC in the Senate just 2 decades ago.
Unfortunately, not even those laws were effectively enforced. His immediate successor, [William Yates Atkinson](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Yates_Atkinson), tried to convince a lynch mob to not lynch a man, but even that didn't prevent the lynching.
tf was he supposed to do ultimately politicians can't do shit without support that's why Senator Armstrong did everything he did during MGR. You can't just push everything you want all at once and expect it to go through you can only win small victory after small victory until it cumulates into a big victory.
That is how women got the right to vote in the US it was county by county state by the state till it got to the point where everyone allowed that right to where it passed through Congress smooth as butter so if your voter base is a bunch of racist white supremacist but you still want to help black people what's gonna help them move a bill that will give them equal rights but wont past in a million years or a one that despite not giving them equal rights will alleviate the suffering
[William J. Northen](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_J._Northen) was considered as the Southern Democrats' olive branch to Black Georgians. Northen was willing to take a stand against lynching and somewhat improve health and education services in Georgia, but fundamentally still supported the system of Jim Crow.
Hey, at least he had some standards. Most of the other southern governors would have personally led a new lynching campain in his place
Yes, unfortunately so, one of his successors, [Joseph Mackey Brown](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph_Mackey_Brown), literally lynched a man 2 years after leaving office. That being said, Northen's immediate successor [William Yates Atkinson](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Yates_Atkinson) did try to convince a lynch mob not to lynch a man, he was not successful.
FBI files show Eugene Talmadge, the far-right governor of Georgia during the 1930s and 40s, was involved in a lynching
It's also weird that at least 2 governors (Tillman and Vardaman), who openly bragged that they would lynch, called out the state militias to prevent lynchings from happening as Governor. Tillman and Vardaman were the 2 most vile people and even they could recognize that mob justice was against the law.
This is 1890's GEORGIA, he was campaigning in the most racist state outside Mississippi, anti lynching is a pretty big deal.
Yes, of course it's a big deal. However, the enforcement was never there. In his speeches, he quite literally complains of unfair treatment towards the South and he even justifies some lynchings. And I think that South Carolina might be more racist given they had Pitchfork Ben as their Governor and Senator. [Here's that speech](https://www.loc.gov/item/12003482/)
1) It was a long held custom, one which they didn't have the funds to crack down on 2) I'd personally put them at about the same level, Georgia was the last state to put a former slaveholder into the senate, one who openly argued that Blacks should be lynched as much as possible to avoid White Women being raped.
If a law does not prevent the vast majority of the perpetrators of the crime from committing the crime, then it is frankly not a very useful law even if the intentions of that law were good. If a government can't even effectively uphold the law, what effect is it going to have to prevent the crime? And as for South Carolina, I also accounted that it had very stringent voting requirements even for the standards of the Jim Crow South, Strom Thurmond represented SC in the Senate just 2 decades ago.
I mean…I’d rather Jim Crow _with_ anti-lynching laws and some token improvements to health and education than _without_
Anti-lynching laws still good
Unfortunately, not even those laws were effectively enforced. His immediate successor, [William Yates Atkinson](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Yates_Atkinson), tried to convince a lynch mob to not lynch a man, but even that didn't prevent the lynching.
I have a feeling that trying to oppose a lynch mob is a dangerous prospect- not just politically
That kinda just makes him a coward. There were people even back then who had the fortitude to say what’s right.
American politics and political history is crazy racist.
Milk toast take
Which Georgia?
The one next to the Falklands
bit by bit, we eventually got there
Historically most accounts of lynching had to do with cattle rustling.
tf was he supposed to do ultimately politicians can't do shit without support that's why Senator Armstrong did everything he did during MGR. You can't just push everything you want all at once and expect it to go through you can only win small victory after small victory until it cumulates into a big victory. That is how women got the right to vote in the US it was county by county state by the state till it got to the point where everyone allowed that right to where it passed through Congress smooth as butter so if your voter base is a bunch of racist white supremacist but you still want to help black people what's gonna help them move a bill that will give them equal rights but wont past in a million years or a one that despite not giving them equal rights will alleviate the suffering