lynching

• 
• SOURCE: Daily Beast
  3/22/2021
  

  How a Detective Who Was Blamed for One Lynching Solved Another

  Wilbur Williams was suspended for a 1976 incident of police brutality that evidence shows he wasn't involved in, and butted heads with the Mobile, Alabama political establishment. In 1981, he led a contentious investigation that led to the conviction of KKK members for a lynching that nearly tore the city apart. 

• 
• 3/21/2021
  

  White Terrorism: From Post-Civil-War Lynchings to the Present

  by Walter G. Moss

  The Capitol riots of January 6 echoed elements of mob lynchings in the participants' binary us/them view of society, a conservative white Protestant religious culture, and a willingness to accept rumor and conspiracy as justifications for their actions.

• 
• SOURCE: Washington Post
  3/11/2021
  

  The Lynching That Black Chattanooga Never Forgot Takes Center Stage Downtown

  "Even as the bridge became a central gathering place of the city, some Black Chattanoogans who know its history have refused to cross it."

• 
• SOURCE: KCUR
  3/2/2021
  

  What The History Of 'Noose Road' Tells Us About Kansas, Race And The Lynchings Of Black Men

  Despite its Great Plains location and history of abolitionism, Kansas has been the site of lynching, sundown towns and violent exclusion of Black residents. Historians Ashleigh Lawrence-Sanders and Jim Leiker discuss. 

• 
• SOURCE: New York Times
  2/18/2021
  

  The Real Story of the ‘Draft Riots’

  by Elizabeth Mitchell

  "The story of the merchants’ response to the so-called Draft Riots is a reminder that we can all do more if we don’t want the lives of more Black people to be marred by cruelty."

• 
• SOURCE: Spectrum One News
  1/26/2021
  

  Website Documents Over 700 Lynchings in Texas

  Jeff Littlejohn of Sam Houston State University has launched a website to make accessible information about more than 700 documented lynchings in the state of Texas. 

• 
• SOURCE: Made By History at the Washington Post
  1/21/2021
  

  Georgia’s New Senators will Write the Next Chapter in Black-Jewish Relations

  by Jeff Melnick

  The history of the Leo Frank trial and lynching shows that, while both groups have faced prejudice and discrimination, "the glory of Black-Jewish relations has always been more aspirational than achieved." Georgia's two new senators have a chance to advance a coalition for progress and equity.

• 
• SOURCE: Law.com
  10/19/2020
  

  US Justices Won't Take Case Over 1946 Georgia Lynching Records

  The Supreme Court declined to hear an appeal of a Circuit Court decision that would have allowed access to the grand jury records of the Moore's Ford Lynchings, the unpunished murder of four Black Georgians in 1946. 

• 
• 10/04/2020
  

  A Personal Encounter with White Supremacy

  by Robert Huddleston

  A lynching in the author's Missouri hometown in 1936 demonstrates the danger of white acquiescence to prejudice and racism. 

• 
• 8/2/2020
  

  The Mississippi Flag and the Shadow of Lynching

  by David T.Z. Mindich

  Lynching helped to raise the odious flag in 1894.  But in 2020, hundreds of thousands of marchers protesting the lynching of George Floyd brought the flag down. 

• 
• SOURCE: NPR
  6/30/2020
  

  As Palmdale Grapples With A Hanging Death, Locals Recall The Area's Racist History

  Because of the area's troubled past, it's easy for locals to think the worst happened to Fuller.

• 
• SOURCE: TIME
  6/25/2020
  

  21 Lessons From America's Worst Moments

  Historians reflect on the lessons to be learned from the worst episodes of American history (if Americans can look unflinchingly on them). 

• 
• SOURCE: Washington Post
  6/22/2020
  

  Police Say Deaths of Black People by Hanging are Suicides. Many Black People aren’t so Sure.

  by Stacey Patton

  Black people's suspicions that a number of recent hanging deaths were murders rather than suicides echoes a long history of concealing violence against black people by ruling it suicide. 

• 
• SOURCE: Washington Post
  6/16/2020
  

  At Least 2,000 More Black People Were Lynched By White Mobs Than Previously Reported, New Research Finds

  Racial terror followed passage of the 13th Amendment in 1865.

• 
• SOURCE: USA Today
  6/6/2020
  

  Emmett Till's Lynching Ignited a Civil Rights Movement. Historians Say George Floyd's Death Could Do the Same

  "Nothing has ever hit me harder than the image of George Floyd. When I saw that image, it brought me back to when I first saw the photograph of Emmett Till at the age of 10," says documentary filmmaker Keith Beauchamp.

• 
• SOURCE: Minnesota Monthly
  6/8/2020
  

  Confronting the Duluth Lynchings 100 Years Later

  On June 15, 1920, three black men were lynched in Duluth; now, the Minnesota Historical Society is making sure this crime is not forgotten.

• 
• SOURCE: National Geographic
  6/3/2020
  

  ‘It Was a Modern-Day Lynching’: Violent Deaths Reflect a Brutal American Legacy

  As black people continue to die at the hands of police and vigilantes, the nation faces its long history of racial violence.

• 
• 6/7/2020
  

  Interconnected Histories of Race, Violence, and Policing in America

  by Michael J. Pfeifer

  A historian of criminal justice contends that two conceptual boundaries--between North and South and between lynching and police force--help conceal the racist violence in the American system of justice.

• 
• SOURCE: The New York Times
  5/27/2020
  

  How White Women Use Themselves as Instruments of Terror

  Throughout history, white women have used the violence of white men and the institutions these men control as their own muscle.

• 
• SOURCE: Washington Post
  5/26/2020
  

  The Link Between the Video of Ahmaud Arbery’s Death and Lynching Photos

  by Grace Elizabeth Hale

  Lynching images can only be created in a context where both killing and observing are allowed by law and society.