Lynching in America: Confronting the Legacy of Racial Terror
ANGLO AMERICA, 16 Feb 2015
Equal Justice Initiative – TRANSCEND Media Service
The 27-page report published on 10 Feb 2015 is fruit of the multi-year investigation into lynching in twelve Southern states (Alabama, Arkansas, Florida, Georgia, Kentucky, Louisiana, Mississippi, North Carolina, South Carolina, Tennessee, Texas, and Virginia) during the period between Reconstruction and World War II.
A flag announcing a lynching hangs from the window of the NAACP headquarters on 69 Fifth Ave., New York City. (Photo: Library of Congress)
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