Tags Matching:

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 05/22/2014

  Reminding People of a Lynching Was What Bothered Them?

  One disgruntled reader complained, "Just can't allow racism to fade away can you News Press?"

• 
• Originally published 02/23/2014

  Remember Way Back When White Men Killed Black Men to "Defend" White Women? (Hint: We're Talking About 2013)

  The justifications of the killers of Trayvon Martin and Jordan Davis draw upon the dark, bloody history of the fear of black men and white women.

• 
• Originally published 10/08/2013

  Nazis, Lynching and Obamacare

  How absolutely bonkers -- yet how unsurprising -- our political analogies have come to this.

• 
• Originally published 07/15/2013

  Sanford, Fla., Threatened to Lynch Jackie Robinson

  Neither of the Robinsons would ever forget their Florida ordeal.

• 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....

• 
• Originally published 11/02/2014

  Sodliers, Vets & the Rest of Us

  Who will take care of our past, present and future war veterans and who will even care?