Every time a lynching occurred in the U.S. between 1920 and 1936, the NAACP flew this flag from their headquarters on Fifth Avenue in New York. Library of Congress. Can one flag really change public ...

"To execute without due process of law, especially to hang, as by a mob." That is the American Heritage Dictionary definition of lynching. Lynching has been described as "among the first hate crimes ...

Her voice carried the kind of reverence that comes when you’re about to be invited into sacred work. “We have another lynching […] The post A Morehouse student Was Lynched in 1930. Why the College ...

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