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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."
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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).
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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SOURCE: Crosscut
5/25/2020
From Civil Rights to COVID-19: ‘Without Truth, You Don’t Have Justice’
Investigative reporter Jerry Mitchell has deepened the public memory of the Civil Rights Era. His reporting offers important lessons for today.
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5/24/2020
The Lynching of David Wyatt
by Greg Bailey
Lynching and mob terrorism against African Americans have never been strictly southern phenomena, as a bloody incident from southern Illinois's histrory reveals.
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SOURCE: Black Perspectives
5/16/2020
Ida Taught Me
by Koritha Mitchell
As the United States seems determined to repeat the horrors of the last turn of the century, I remain grateful for Wells’s example. Here is just some of what she taught me.
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SOURCE: Christianity Today
5/13/2020
What Ahmaud Arbery’s Death Recalls About Lynching and Church History
How and why these killings—and Christians’ responses to them—changed over the centuries.