Those two lynchings, in 1931 and 1933, were the last recorded in Maryland, and it's unclear whether any witnesses are still alive. But those events and other incidents of racial violence in the Jim ...

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Counts were standardized to the 1930 population figures, then divided into four categories, from lowest (no lynchings) to highest.

We asked the curators for their thoughts on the individual lynching images in the context of the time of their making as well as our own. Sternberg, Harry Photo: Harry Sternberg (1904-2001).

Koritha Mitchell talked about her book, [Living with Lynching: African American Lynching Plays, Performance, and Citizenship, 1890-1930], in which she discusses the way lynching was depicted in ...

Lynching wasn't confined to the South, and blacks weren't the only victims. But between 1882 and 1930, blacks were lynched in the South at the rate of nearly one a week, according to the book A ...

They shot him dead; Jacob, Tom and Oliver escaped. A hurrying crowd seized Esau Robinson, strung him to a tree—ninth lynching on the 1930 roll, Alabama’s first this year.

Koritha Mitchell talked about her book, Living with Lynching: African American Lynching Plays, Performance, and Citizenship, 1890-1930, in… read more ...

According to educator Femi Lewis, white women had joined in the fight against lynching in the 1920s and 1930s, working through organizations such as the Commission on Interracial Cooperation and ...

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