Viola's dangerous times.
Judge A.J. Cobb charges Doctors Summerlin and Waters with Viola's murder.
The lawlessness of vigilante mob rule, growing since just before Viola was born, encourages her killers' faith in crime.
Vigilant supremacist leaders admire the value of Viola's murder:
Gynocide is the systematic killing of women.
The legal teams of Summerlin and Waters seek a conspicuous court ruling.
Georgia's leaders craved Terror upon women who vote against them.
Gynocide is the systematic killing of women.
The legal teams of Summerlin and Waters seek a conspicuous court ruling.
Georgia's leaders craved Terror upon women who vote against them.
The entire page reads as if Klan leaders proclaim from horseback, between rebel yells:
"We're less than 2 months into 1916 and we done lynched as many as all 1915!"
Consistent with the KKK's pretense as a Christian Mystery Cult
(expressed as flaming crosses and hooded inquisitioner)
the final USA lynching tally of 1915 is presented by the Wesleyan Christian Advocate.
Georgia's total of 18 lynchings is double the nearest contender's amount and more than quadruple the average of all other states combined!
The entire newspaper spread is designed to excite and fulfill the desire for Lynching. The KKK's recruitment announcement, in The Athens Banner, is across the page from publicity for The Birth of a Nation.
The Klan's folksy drawing for recruitment is larger than the professionally rendered ad for the world's largest motion picture release!
Birth of a Nation is the USA's first successful blockbuster movie. No other preceding film had toured the US with such pomp and success.
Parades, orchestras playing throughout the show, vaudeville acts between the reels, eager Birth of a Nation audiences await their town's supreme event!
Lynching is an invitation to exclude.
Maintain exclusive society.
Mildred Rutherford is
Dixie's First Lady of Society.
She is the State of Georgia Official Historian, President of Georgia Women's Clubs, and
President of the Lucy Cobb Institute for Women, the celebrated Athenian secondary school for young ladies.
Millie declares that Euro-men need
a new way to control Afro-women, through the KKK.
Millie invites Euro-men to reform the KKK with new methods of Terror. for keeping Afro-women from politics.
She declares, “The men of the South can
manage the negro woman's vote as they have the negro men's votes.
Conditions are not the same now. Negro women are not disqualified as negro men were.
Negro men and negro women will again make the public highways unsafe for white women.
The Klu Klux Klan fought the white woman's battle.”
Millie invites murder against the vote.
Sex crimes make the most effective lynchings.
Make death by illegal abortion impossible to prosecute and women could be murdered with impunity.
The legal teams for Viola's killers have a plan for decriminalizing murder of adult women by abortion.
Viola's death is brought before Georgia's Supreme Court.
Viola's accused of criminal conspiracy and so,
loosing her right to accuse.
Viola speaks.
Viola's dying words stop the terrorist plot.
