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A colorized postcard of the lynching of Virgil Jones, Robert Jones, Thomas Jones, and Joseph Riley on July 31, 1908, in Russellville, Kentucky. A lynching postcard is a postcard bearing the photograph of a lynching—a vigilante murder usually motivated by racial hatred—intended to be distributed, collected, or kept as a souvenir.
James Allen, Without Sanctuary: Photographs and Postcards of Lynching in America, his website related to his published book of same name; Notes on the photo from Allen's Without Sanctuary, includes a quote from Cameron's A Time of Terror; American History: "Lynching", Spartacus Educational, includes an account of the origin of poem/song Strange ...
Lynching could involve victims being hanged furtively at night by a small group or during the day in front of hundreds or even thousands of witnesses; the latter is known as "spectacle lynchings". The whole community might attend; newspapers sometimes publicized them in advance, and special trains brought in more distant community members. [ 15 ]
A graph of lynchings in the US by victim race and year [1] The body of George Meadows, lynched near the Pratt Mines in Jefferson County, Alabama, on January 15, 1889 Bodies of three African-American men lynched in Habersham County, Georgia, on May 17, 1892 Six African-American men lynched in Lee County, Georgia, on January 20, 1916 (retouched photo due to material deterioration) Lynching of ...
Postcard of crowd two hours after the lynching of Brooks This is a list of lynching victims in the United States . While the definition has changed over time, lynching is often defined as the summary execution of one or more persons without due process of law by a group of people organized internally and not authorized by a legitimate government.
Brooks' death was pictured in a lynching postcard. Allen Brooks was a black American man who was lynched by a mob on March 3, 1910, in Dallas, Texas.Brooks had been accused of raping a young white girl, and on the day he was set to face trial at the Dallas County Courthouse, a large mob pulled him by rope out of a second-story window at the courthouse, dragged him to Elks Arch, and hanged him ...
The group has documented over 4,400 lynchings in 20 states between 1877 and 1950. UNC-Chapel Hill’s “A Red Record” lynching project has documented over 170 lynchings in North Carolina since ...
James Allen (born June 16, 1954) [1] is an American antique collector, known in particular for his collection of 145 photographs of lynchings in America, published in 2000 with Congressman John Lewis as Without Sanctuary: Lynching Photography in America.