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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.
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A professional photographer took pictures as the event unfolded, providing rare imagery of a lynching in progress. The pictures were printed and sold as postcards in Waco. Although the lynching was supported by many Waco residents, it was condemned by newspapers around the United States.
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 ...
Two of the Black victims are still hanging while the third is on the ground. Postcards of lynchings were popular souvenirs in the U.S. [94] After the lynching, photographers would sell their pictures as-is or as postcards, sometimes costing as much as 50 cents a piece, or $9, as of 2016. [91]
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 ...
A Joe's Crab Shack in Minneapolis is under fire after putting up a photo of an 1895 Texas lynching near one of their tables.
This file has an extracted image: Four African American men lynched on the "old proctor lynching tree" where "a total of nine men lynched on this tree" "taken at dawn August 1, '08" at "Russellville, Logan County, Kentucky"- (NBY 4084) (cropped).jpg.