For this article, I choose to focus on the brutal rape of an African American grandmother while working at a white family's house. The rapists entered her house due to a late payment from her husband and decided to rape her at gunpoint while driving her deep into the woods. She was able to escape when they got stuck in the mud and made it to safety. I chose this case because the “rape led to a high white and negro sentiment towards the accusers”. The county that this occurred in had a high population of African Americans and this rape only led to more division between the races.
Humanities, National Endowment for the. “The Ohio Daily-Express. (Dayton, Ohio) 1946-1950, March 01, 1948, Image 4.” News about Chronicling America RSS, Paige H. Strickland, chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn88077226/1948-03-01/ed-1/seq-4/.