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Originally published 01/26/2017
Georgia police chief apologizing for agency's role in 1940 lynching

There was no effort to identify his killers, no criminal investigation and no discussion by city police about their complicity in the lynching of the young African-American man. In essence, Callaway’s death was scrubbed from the city record.

Originally published 12/21/2016
Lynching memorial aims to help U.S. acknowledge a history of terror

Lynchings -- unlawful executions used to terrorize and subdue black communities into passivity -- are perhaps one of the least discussed legacies of slavery and the Jim Crow South. A new memorial in Montgomery, Alabama, will commemorate victims of these acts of terror.

Originally published 09/20/2015
Horror Drove Her From South. 100 Years Later, She Returned.

The incredible story unearthed by the Times of a 107 year old African American woman who returns for the first time since 1915 to the little Mississippi town her family fled after a lynching.

Originally published 02/10/2015
History of Lynchings in the South Documents Nearly 4,000 Names

After compiling an inventory of 3,959 lynching victims in 12 Southern states from 1877 to 1950, the Equal Justice Initiative wants to erect markers and memorials on certain sites.

Originally published 05/22/2014
Lynching history spurs call for closure, 90 years later

Denson-Rogers, a historian for the Lee County Black History Society, would like to see the victims' recognized.

Originally published 11/12/2013
15 Va. soldiers ID'd at NY Revolutionary War site

The Friends of the Fishkill Supply Depot made the discovery.

Originally published 02/05/2013
Bill to clear Scottsboro Boys in Ala.

MONTGOMERY, Ala. — In 1931, Alabama wanted to execute the black Scottsboro Boys because two white women claimed they were gang-raped. Now, state officials are trying to exonerate them in a famous case from the segregated South that some consider the beginning of the modern civil rights movement.Two Democratic and two Republican legislators unveiled proposals Monday for the legislative session starting Tuesday. A resolution labels the Scottsboro Boys as “victims of a series of gross injustice” and declares them exonerated. A companion bill gives the state parole board the power to issue posthumous pardons....