For many African Americans growing up in the South in the 19th and 20th centuries, the threat of lynching was commonplace. The popular image of an angry white mob ...
A legacy of racial violence -- A portrait of the lynching era, 1880-1930 -- Social threat, competition, and mob violence -- Lynching as popular justice -- The role of king cotton -- Southern politics ...
Almost 144 years ago, a group of armed white men took a Black man, James Mitchell, from the jail in Mount Sterling and hanged him from a railroad trestle on the edge of town as hundreds of people ...
The horrors of war -- The violent transition from freedom to segregation -- Southern white women and the anti-rape movement -- Organizing in defense of black womanhood -- New southern women and the ...
EXCLUSIVE: Between 1880 and 1968, over four thousand African American people were lynched in the United States, according to multiple independent investigations ...
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