Lynching in America. Share: Copy Link The lynching problem / Dalrymple, 1899. Library of Congress. For many African Americans growing up in the South in the 19th and ... In his book Black Boy, he ...

Shockingly, it took until 2022 for Congress to pass an anti-lynching law, something you'd assume had been ratified centuries earlier. Or maybe it's not so shocking, since several books ...

Without Sanctuary: Lynching Photography in America, James Allen, John Lewis, Leon F Litwack, Hilton Als, Twin Palms Publishing. Durba Chattaraj teaches writing and anthropology at Ashoka University.

The practice of lynching African-Americans during the early history of the United States has had lasting effects on society today, author Philip Dray said yesterday in the third of the ...

In 2015, Google.org gave $1 million to the Equal Justice Initiative to help fund a national memorial for lynching victims that the Equal Justice Initiative is building on six acres of vacant land ...

On a summer afternoon in 1946, in rural Georgia, a white mob killed four young black people in a hail of gunfire. The brutal killings -- the last mass lynching in America -- led to a national outcry.

My book “America’s Jewish Women: A History from Colonial Times to Today” highlighted some of them. In the 1880s, a Philadelphia writer ruefully recalled a teacher saying: “It is your ...

The Equal Justice Initiative documents more than 4,400 lynchings of Black people in the U.S., most in the racially segregated South, in a report called "Lynching in America: Confronting the Legacy ...

America's Black Holocaust Museum was founded in Milwaukee by James Cameron, who survived a lynching in 1930 in Marion, Indiana, when he was 16 years old. According to the museum’s executive ...

INDIANAPOLIS (WISH) — Unmasked: The Anti-Lynching Exhibits of 1935 and Community Remembrance in Indiana is opening at the Crispus Attucks museum. Robert Chester, The museum’s curator, says it ...