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• SOURCE: Duluth News Tribune
  3/29/2020
  

  Author of 'The Lynchings in Duluth' Broke Silence on City's Dark History

  Michael Fedo's 40-plus year old account of the public murders of Elias Clayton, Elmer Jackson and Isaac McGhie is credited as the first complete resource on the events of June 15, 1920.

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• SOURCE: New York Times
  3/30/2020
  

  Records in 1946 Lynching Case Must Remain Sealed, Court Rules

  No one was ever charged in the killing of two black couples by a group of white men in rural Georgia, known as the Moore’s Ford lynchings.

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• SOURCE: Washington Post
  3/13/2020
  

  A White Republican Mayor Seeks the Truth about Tulsa’s Race Massacre a Century Ago

  Bynum, a white Republican in deeply red Oklahoma, said he would not back down from trying to find answers to what happened.

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• SOURCE: Gainesville Times
  2/29/2020
  

  How a UNG Student Unlocked a Piece of History to the Leo Frank Murder Case

  Brittany Rhodes, now 30, first found the keys as she was disposing of leftovers from an estate sale. A tag on the keys read, “If found return to Warden J.E. Smith, Milledgeville, GA. State Prison Farm.”

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• 3/1/2020
  

  When Anti-Lynching Law Was a Tool of Oppression

  by Guy Lancaster

  Arkansas used its ostensible “anti-lynching” law to transform the “bad violence” of the mob into the “good violence” of the state, to transform lynching into officially sanctioned execution.

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• SOURCE: The Conversation
  2/10/10
  

  Lynching preachers: How black pastors resisted Jim Crow and white pastors incited racial violence

  by Malcolm Brian Foley

  Religion was no barrier for these white murderers, as I’ve discovered in my research on Christianity and lynch mobs in the Reconstruction-era South. White preachers incited racial violence, joined the Ku Klux Klan and lynched black people.

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• November 10th, 2019
  

  Historians criticize Trump after he calls impeachment inquiry a ‘lynching’

  by Laura Gonzalez

  President Trump's tweet drew backlash from historians against the use of a racially charged word. 

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• 12/22/19
  

  Rodney Reed, A Story That is All Too Familiar

  by Elisabeth Pearson

  Rodney Reed fits this pattern of injustice because he was sentenced to death while potentially exonerating evidence was ignored. 

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• SOURCE: AP
  10/22/19
  

  A 1946 Mob Lynching Case in Georgia Puts Court Focus on Grand Jury Secrecy

  Historian Anthony Pitch's quest for the truth about a gruesome mob lynching of two black couples is prompting a U.S. appeals court to consider whether federal judges can order grand jury records unsealed in decades-old cases with historical significance.

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• SOURCE: Washington Post
  10/23/19
  

  So you want to talk about lynching? Understand this first.

  by Michele Norris

  Let’s face it as the terror and the terrorism it was. 

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• SOURCE: Wbur.org
  September 12, 2019
  

  Maryland Commission Sets Out To Investigate State's Lynching History

  by Robin Young and Allison Hagan

  A Maryland commission empowered to investigate at least 40 lynchings that occurred between 1854 and 1933 will have its public launch Thursday night.

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• SOURCE: The Conversation
  5/9/19
  

  Misery and memory in Glendora, Mississippi: How poverty is reshaping the story of Emmett Till’s murder

  by Dave Tell

  As Till’s story has been passed down through the generations and taken up by a range of memorials, its plot has been shaped by forces like poverty as much as by fidelity to historical fact.

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• 5/5/19
  

  James Byrd, Jr., John William King, and the History of American Lynching

  by Ashraf H. A. Rushdy

  We need a historical understanding of how lynchg discourse continues to shape America’s enduring “dialogue on race.”  

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• SOURCE: Washington Post
  2/19/19
  

  ‘Time for the Ku Klux Klan to night ride again’: An Alabama newspaper editor wants to bring back lynching

  “If we could get the Klan to go up there and clean out D.C., we’d all been better off,” he told the paper, explaining, “We’ll get the hemp ropes out, loop them over a tall limb and hang all of them.”

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• SOURCE: NY Times
  2/12/19
  

  Secrets of 1946 Mass Lynching Could Be Revealed After Court Ruling

  On Monday, the United States Court of Appeals for the 11th Circuit, in Atlanta, affirmed a lower court’s ruling that had ordered the release of the grand jury transcripts from 1946.

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• SOURCE: Denver Post
  1/21/19
  

  Colorado lawmaker Lori Saine claims blacks, whites were lynched in “nearly equal numbers” for being Republican following Reconstruction

  According to the NAACP’s history of lynchings, nearly 73 percent of the 4,800 people lynched from 1882 until 1968 were black.

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• SOURCE: Smithsonian.com
  1/7/19
  

  In Land of Lincoln, Long-Buried Traces of a Race Riot Come to the Surface

  by Megan Gannon

  Archaeologists recently uncovered the remains of five houses that lay witness to the tragedy that set Springfield, Illinois, on fire in 1908.

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• 12/22/2018
  

  When We Really Needed an Anti-Lynching Law Congress Wouldn’t Pass It

  by William Loren Katz

  This is the man who proposed the first federal anti-lynching law. It was in 1900.  HR 6963.

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• SOURCE: NYT
  12-20-2018
  

  Senate Unanimously Passes Bill Making Lynching a Federal Crime

  More than 4,700 people, the vast majority of them black, were lynched in the United States between 1882 and 1968.

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• SOURCE: NYT
  10/8/18
  

  NYT calls for courts to release secret grand jury records in 1946 Georgia lynching

  by NYT Editorial Board

  It was the last mass lynching in US history.