lynching

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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.

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• SOURCE: AP
  10-3-18
  

  Journalist Seeks Grand Jury Transcripts in Notorious 1946 Georgia Lynching

  Anthony Pitch, author of a 2016 book on the lynching, has been fighting for the transcripts for years. The case heads to court this week.

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• SOURCE: The Baltimore Sun
  9-25-18
  

  Maryland confronts its lynching legacy

  At least 44 men in Maryland lost their lives to lynchings. Now activists are shining a light on the gruesome practice.

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• 10/14/18
  

  The Shocking Lynching of Will Brown 100 Years Ago

  by Palma Joy Strand

  It happened in 1919 in Omaha, Nebraska.

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• 8-20-18
  

  Kevin Kruse draws attention for his post on lynching

  by Kevin Kruse

  How he brings home to students the horror of it all.

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• SOURCE: The Washington Post
  7-5-18
  

  Why Congress failed nearly 200 times to make lynching a federal crime

  Although seven presidents supported such efforts, none were successful, according to anti-lynching legislation introduced last week by three black senators.

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• SOURCE: The Conversation
  6-19-18
  

  Psychologists say memorials to lynching victims help their African-American descendants

  by Taasogle Daryl Rowe and Kamilah Marie Woodson

  "We believe that the restorative memories developed in public spaces like the National Memorial for Peace and Justice create a shared story that can inoculate African-Americans from ongoing dehumanization."