TY  - GEN
N2  - In 1951, the Civil Rights Congress (CRC), under the leadership of William Patterson, submitted a 200+-page petition to the United Nations charging the United States with genocide against Black Americans. The meticulously researched petition documented hundreds of cases of assault, legal lynching (the use of the legal system to deny Black Americans justice) and death that all amounted to a system in which the federal government failed to protect Black Americans against injustice. Sexual assault figured prominently in the petition. This article looks specifically at the case of Rosa Lee Ingram as exemplary of both legal lynching and gender violence that were essential to the argument that the United States was guilty of genocide. For Patterson and the CRC, sexual violence and the threat of sexual assault, as in the Ingram case, was symptomatic of a larger terror campaign that focused on Black Americans, circumscribing their rights, their lives and safety, and confirming a white supremacist system that punished Black male sexuality and claimed Black women’s sexuality for its own.
AB  - In 1951, the Civil Rights Congress (CRC), under the leadership of William Patterson, submitted a 200+-page petition to the United Nations charging the United States with genocide against Black Americans. The meticulously researched petition documented hundreds of cases of assault, legal lynching (the use of the legal system to deny Black Americans justice) and death that all amounted to a system in which the federal government failed to protect Black Americans against injustice. Sexual assault figured prominently in the petition. This article looks specifically at the case of Rosa Lee Ingram as exemplary of both legal lynching and gender violence that were essential to the argument that the United States was guilty of genocide. For Patterson and the CRC, sexual violence and the threat of sexual assault, as in the Ingram case, was symptomatic of a larger terror campaign that focused on Black Americans, circumscribing their rights, their lives and safety, and confirming a white supremacist system that punished Black male sexuality and claimed Black women’s sexuality for its own.
AD  - University of Southern Indiana
T1  - Gender violence as genocide: the Rosa Lee Ingram case and We Charge Genocide petition
DA  - 02/24/2022
AU  - Lynn, Denise
L1  - https://library.usi.edu/record/1474432/files/Gender%20violence%20as%20genocide.pdf
JF  - Radical Americas
PB  - University of College London Press
LA  - eng
PY  - 02/24/2022
ID  - 1474432
L4  - https://library.usi.edu/record/1474432/files/Gender%20violence%20as%20genocide.pdf
KW  - Cold War
KW  - Rosa Lee Ingram
KW  - W.E.B. Du Bois
KW  - Sojourners for Truth and Justice
KW  - We Charge Genocide
KW  - Civil Rights Congress
TI  - Gender violence as genocide: the Rosa Lee Ingram case and We Charge Genocide petition
Y1  - 02/24/2022
L2  - https://library.usi.edu/record/1474432/files/Gender%20violence%20as%20genocide.pdf
LK  - https://library.usi.edu/record/1474432/files/Gender%20violence%20as%20genocide.pdf
UR  - https://library.usi.edu/record/1474432/files/Gender%20violence%20as%20genocide.pdf
ER  -