Black Church,
Church in the Southern Black Community https://www.docsouth.unc.edu/church/ The
lynching record
Ida B. Wells’s lynching data collection [Caitlin Pollock has done some work on this & Library of Congress has a copy of A Red Record]
The relationship between black church formation and lynching during the 19th century. I will useThe Church in the Southern Black Community and A Red Record for comparison. In the book of The Evolution of the Negro Baptist Church, there are record of how Black pastors were whipped for holding a rally. I want to analyze the injustice and other physical injuries suffered by black people during the construction and development of black churches and the organization of black church assemblies by finding the relationship between the two. This proves the difficulties they have encountered in building the Black Church. I will be scanning the data from Caitlin Pollock’s work which is already made into csv format. My hypothesis is that black people suffer from unjust judgement even more by black people especially during the time period when they are trying to create black churches and black preachers held events, the number of unfair cases will increase since they were trying to create a way out or to create their own religious right. For the data comparison, I will create a visual graph, possibly a bar graph, with timeline for people and for the purpose of comparing those case numbers before, middle and after black was creating black churches. Also a detailed chart to indicate special cases refer to creating black churches. My point was to show that even black people suffered from unfair judgment and were arrested unjustly when trying to obtain religious rights, but they still insisted on their own rights and trying to work against unfair treatment.
My initial impression is that this could be a very ambitious project for the way that it brings together these datasets and provide new insight on the connections (or perhaps lack of connections) between the role of the church in southern Black communities and the proliferation of lynchings throughout the region. However, I think you will need to also use the dataset we are building in class based upon Freedom’s Lawmakers (which can add a unique political dimension to this study). Because of this, you may need to scale down the scope of your project to make sure that it is realistic to complete by the end of the semester. Perhaps choose either the Black church dataset OR the lynching data collection to use WITH the Freedom’s Lawmakers data. Keep in mind the amount of processing you detailed regarding the lynching data and also note that the church data is in full text format and would need to be converted into some kind of a CSV if you want to create the type of visualizations you discussed. Be specific about what information you are visualizing and why.
Once you narrow this down, what do you expect to see out of these visualizations? Why would a bar graph communicate this data more effectively than a map? Is there a geospatial correlation between politics, religion, and/or violence? These are just some questions to consider as you move forward.