Over the weekend, #KarensGoneWild trended on social media with jaw-dropping videos of frantic white women attacking Black women, toddlers, teenagers and grown Black men.
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Once upon a time, even the slightest hint that white womanhood may be in danger resulted in the lynching of Black children or a thriving town full of Black families being burned to the ground.
The next day, Rowland was arrested and word spread that a Black man assaulted a white woman.
Eleanor Strubing
In December of 1940, Eleanor Strubing, a wealthy white woman in Connecticut accused her 31-year-old Black chaueffeur, Joseph Spell, of raping her four times and throwing her into a river.
However, two white women, Victoria Price and Ruby Bates, were also on the train and spent their time wrongfully accusing several of the Black boys of rape.
