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 ...

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 ...

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.

Dray also summarized his book, At the Hands of Persons Unknown: the Lynching of Black America, during the 40-minute speech, followed by a question and answer session and book signing. 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 ...

The Lynching in America report lists over 4,400 lynchings that were racially motivated and took place between the Reconstruction Era and World War II. The report pays special attention to the ...

As New Lynching Memorial Opens, A Look Back On America's History Of Racial Terrorism We listen back to interviews with historian Philip Dray, author of At the Hands of Persons Unknown, and James ...

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.

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 ...

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 ...