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SOURCE: CNN
7/22/2022
Till's Accuser's Memoir Shows the Pandora's Box She Opened has Never Closed
by Peniel E. Joseph
"What does it say about America that we are still in search of justice for the victim of an almost 70-year-old crime that helped spark the modern civil rights movement?"
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SOURCE: New York Times
7/17/2022
Charles Blow: Don't Shed Tears for Carolyn Bryant Donham
In a newly-discovered unpublished memoir, the woman who accused Emmett Till of making sexual advances presents a self-serving account of her role in the events that led to his murder.
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SOURCE: Associated Press
7/15/2022
Mississippi AG Will Not Reopen Till Lynching Case Despite Discovered Warrant for Carolyn Donham
The state's top prosecutor said that despite the discovery of the warrant and the publication of Ms. Donham's memoir, the woman at the center of the Till lynching will not be prosecuted.
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SOURCE: Mississippi Free Press
6/29/2022
Unserved Warrant for Carolyn Bryant Donham's Arrest in Till Lynching Discovered in Box in Courthouse Basement
The 1955 document demonstrates that the authorities in Leflore County believed that Donham, for whose honor the lynching was allegedly carried out, was present for the teenager's abduction, torture, or murder.
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SOURCE: The Conversation
5/30/2022
In one Family's Photo Album: A Wedding, An Anniversary, and a Lynching in Texas
by Jeffrey J. Littlejohn
The author set out to identify the victim of a lynching pictured in a family photoalbum. This project – pointing out the normalcy and pervasiveness of violence as a tool of white supremacy – could be illegal for a K-12 teacher in Texas today.
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SOURCE: Washington Post
2/14/2022
New Documentary Highlights Unsolved Civil Rights-Era Murder
Black citizens in Natchez, Mississippi secretly organized for community self-defense in 1965, risking certain reprisals from local whites. Wharlest Jackson was killed by a car bomb in an act of intimidation that was never solved.
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SOURCE: NPR
2/8/2022
Black Activists Used Lynching Souvenirs to Expose America's Racist Violence
Filmmaker Christine Turner has examined the souvenir postcards produced at lynchings for evidence of the planning and community sanction given to racist terrorism.
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SOURCE: The Guardian
12/18/2021
Ida B. Wells Became the Last Hope for 12 Men Convicted of False Charges During Elaine, Ark. Massacre
"Did Wells, an unflinching woman who had traveled the country to investigate the ruthless barbarity of white mobs in other lynchings and massacres, have that much power to save these Black men on death row in Arkansas?"
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SOURCE: New York Times
12/6/2021
Justice Department Closes Emmett Till Investigation Without Charges
Historian Timothy Tyson wrote in a 2017 book that witness Carolyn Bryant Donham disavowed her testimony that Till had grabbed her and made suggestive remarks before he was lynched. The DOJ has said that materials given them by Tyson did not corroborate the claim of a recantation.
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SOURCE: Made By History at the Washington Post
10/24/2021
150 Years Ago, a Mob Attacked Los Angeles's Chinese Community
by Reece Jones
It's essential to understand white supremacy as a national phenomenon that defended the color line against multiple groups and linked white identity to the nation's borders.
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SOURCE: University of Virginia Batten School
10/11/2021
New Research: More Lynchings in Places with More Confederate Monuments
Empirical research supports what activists have been saying for decades: Confederate memorials encourage violence in the name of white supremacy.
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SOURCE: NPR
10/3/2021
Bryan Stevenson's Legacy Museum in Montgomery Aims for Truth Telling
"I do think there's something powerful when you're standing in these spaces learning about this history, knowing that the soil you're standing on is the same soil where enslaved people sweated."
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SOURCE: Mississippi Free Press
9/1/2021
Journalist William Huie Concealed Lynchers In Emmett Till Case And Got Away With It
The commonly-know story of Emmett Till's lynching has long been distorted because a journalist who reported the accounts of two acquitted killers had written out other conspirators from the story for legal reasons.
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9/12/2021
9/11's Memorials and the Politics of Historical Memory
by Marita Sturken
Major 9/11 memorials try to fix the public memory on a moment of national unity that, 20 years later, seems illusory. Other memorials point the way to using the force of memory to encourage critical reflection on nationalism.
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SOURCE: New York Times
8/20/2021
Felix Hall Remembered 80 Years After Ft. Benning Lynching
"This month — more than eight decades after Private Hall’s death — a plaque at Fort Benning was dedicated in his memory. But major details about his death remain unclear. Officials have been accused of failing to fully investigate what happened, and no one was ever charged."
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SOURCE: New York Times
8/20/2021
Chattanooga Struggles to Heal the Scars of a Lynching
by Peter Canellos
"In a time of mistrust along racial lines, the initiative in Chattanooga is a model for other communities. It demonstrates that agreed-upon facts can be a precursor to recovery."
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SOURCE: Washington Post
8/1/2021
Army to Memorialize Black Soldier Lynched on Georgia Base 80 Years Ago
“To be lynched as you’re in service to the United States Army?” said Richard Liebert, a retired Army officer who trained at Fort Benning in the 1970s and ’80s. Liebert, who is White, has for the past five years pressed the Army to recognize this young soldier.
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SOURCE: New York Times
7/24/2021
‘He Had a Life Before Death’: Remembering Emmett Till for the Child He Was
Emmett Till's cousin Ollie Gordon describes Till's personality at what would be his 80th birthday, reminding us that he was a person, and not just a martyr.
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SOURCE: New York Times
7/10/2021
How White Newspapers Helped Keep Down Black America
White-owned newspapers – northern, southern, midwestern or western – frequently inflamed racial tensions and contributed to racist political violence and disenfranchisement.
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SOURCE: Longview News-Journal
5/16/2021
Uncovering Longview, Texas's History of Racist Violence
Longview resident Clent Holmes leads a nonprofit organization that is working to uncover the histories of the 1919 race riot.
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