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001474432 02470 $$ahttps://doi.org/10.14324/111.444.ra.2022.v7.1.001$$2DOI
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001474432 245__ $$aGender violence as genocide: the Rosa Lee Ingram case and We Charge Genocide petition
001474432 260__ $$bUniversity of College London Press
001474432 269__ $$a02/24/2022
001474432 520__ $$aIn 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.
001474432 650__ $$aCold War$$0(DLC)sh2009120578
001474432 6531_ $$aRosa Lee Ingram
001474432 6531_ $$aW.E.B. Du Bois
001474432 6531_ $$aSojourners for Truth and Justice
001474432 6531_ $$aWe Charge Genocide
001474432 6531_ $$aCivil Rights Congress
001474432 7001_ $$aLynn, Denise$$uUniversity of Southern Indiana$$10000-0002-3170-3644
001474432 773__ $$tRadical Americas
001474432 8564_ $$954b49195-72e6-40ac-8851-f165172563c9$$s429279$$uhttps://library.usi.edu/record/1474432/files/Gender%20violence%20as%20genocide.pdf
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