Tag: Lynching in America
New Lynching Memorial Aims to Force America...
On the Dec. 19 edition of PBS' "NewsHour," attorney and founder of equal justice initiative Bryan Stevenson talks about his involvement in a new...
10 Outrageous Reasons Black People Were Lynched...
After America's bloody Civil War, the former white planter class was dismantled in an attempt to create an equal society in the South. However,...
Remembering the Lynching Victims: Lawyer Plans Memorials...
The Confederate flag is a symbol of white privilege and segregation, the oppression of Black people, and the fight by Southern states to preserve...
10 American States With the Most Lynchings...
Mississippi
With well over 581 lynchings, Mississippi tops the list with the most total lynchings during this time, according to statistics provided by the Tuskegee...
10 Outrageous Reasons Black People Were Lynched...
For years the U.S. government allowed racist white lynch mobs to murder Black men, women and children for practically nothing. The lynchings were so...