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In the North, liberal and radical artists created paintings and poems that depicted a racist South, where white men dominated blacks and white women with the illegitimate use of violence and arbitrary power.
In the North, liberal and radical artists created paintings and poems that depicted a racist South, where white men dominated blacks and white women with the illegitimate use of violence and arbitrary power.
Paintings, drawings, and sculptures highlighted the suffering of lynching victims and the hypocritical Christianity of the perpetrators. Artists used their work to elicit sympathy for the accused and to convince Americans of the necessity of federal anti-lynching legislation. Published reports consistently cited blacks were being lynched at the rate of about one every three weeks in the South in the 1930s, and the [[New Deal]] depended on the votes of the white South. President [[Franklin D. Roosevelt]] refused to break up his coalition on the issue.
Paintings, drawings, and sculptures highlighted the suffering of lynching victims and the hypocritical Christianity of the perpetrators. Artists used their work to elicit sympathy for the accused and to convince Americans of the necessity of federal [[anti-lynching legislation]]. Published reports consistently cited blacks were being lynched at the rate of about one every three weeks in the South in the 1930s, and the [[New Deal]] depended on the votes of the white South. President [[Franklin D. Roosevelt]] refused to break up his coalition on the issue.
The literature of the 1930s was basically far-left in approach, as illustrated by Langston Hughes' play, ''Scottsboro Limited,'' and John Wexley's play ''They Shall Not Die.'' During the [[Cold War]] writers depicted the Communists, not the system, as responsible for the injustices done to the black youths, illustrated in Don Mankiewicz's novel ''The Trial.''
The literature of the 1930s was basically far-left in approach, as illustrated by Langston Hughes' play, ''Scottsboro Limited,'' and John Wexley's play ''They Shall Not Die.'' During the [[Cold War]] writers depicted the Communists, not the system, as responsible for the injustices done to the black youths, illustrated in Don Mankiewicz's novel ''The Trial.''