Oh dear: The artist behind the Elgin mural that depicts a portion of a famous photo of a 1930 lynching of two black men in Indiana said the piece was intended to get people to ask questions, think about issues and consider their own place...
lynching
When that great study detailing the numbers of African-Americans lynched in the South came out last week, I noted that its weaknesses included that lynching was not confined to the.
The Equal Justice Initiative has researched a new history of lynching, documenting nearly 4000 lynchings in the South, including attempts to find the precise locations where they took place. The.
We think of lynching as something whites did to African-Americans and that was of course often the case. But the use of extralegal violence to eliminate perceived threats without a trial was pretty common. Whites were often lynched, especially in power struggles in the West....
Laura Nelson Black History Month isn't just about MLK and the civil rights movement. It's about remembering the horrible things that white people did to black people through American history..
This is a fascinating piece on Ken Gonzales-Day, the artist and author who explores the history of lynching in the American West. We usually think of lynching as something that.
You will not believe this 1934 New Yorker cartoon my friend Adam Jones dug up. What a difference a few decades makes. Jones writes about mass killing and has one of the foremost textbooks on the subject. Apparently a section in the new edition deals...