The lynching of Jesse Washington is remembered as the ‘Waco Horror,’ for its brutality, long duration, and large public participation. Photo shows the burnt remains of Washington’s body. May 15, 1916.
An actual postcard showing the 1920 Duluth, Minnesota lynchings
An actual postcard showing the 1920 Duluth, Minnesota lynchings. Two of the black victims are still hanging while the third is on the ground. Not one person was ever convicted for a lynching of a black person in the United States …
The Omaha race riot of 1919 in Omaha, Nebraska
A group of white men pose for a 1919 photograph as they stand over the black victim Will Brown who had been lynched and had his body mutilated and burned during the Omaha race riot of 1919 in Omaha, Nebraska. No …
The Great Migration “We Gettin’ Da @#$% Outta Here”
In 1889, Jim Crow began in the South, kicking off a campaign of unconstrained textbook terrorism that would last until 1965. 85% of all lynching’s that occurred in the United States occurred south of the Mason Dixon line. In 1892 …
“Why does America tolerate the lynching of Negroes?”
When Supreme Court Justice William O. Douglas travelled to India in 1950 the very first question he was asked by the Indian press was, “Why does America tolerate the lynching of Negroes?” 1950 was the height of the Cold War. …
Fool me once…
When the grandchildren of enslaved Africans returned home from Europe after fighting World War I, they returned with the hope that after serving honorably, their own country would appreciate their bravery and sacrifice and see to it that their own …