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Chart Shows Chronology of Lynchings of Blacks in Virginia After the Civil War

New data visualization from the Racial Terror: Lynching in Virginia project of James Madison University helps to illustrate chronological patterns in the lynchings of Blacks….

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1878 Lynching in Kentucky Commemorated

Shelbyville, Kentucky unveiled three historical markers last week memorializing lynchings in the community. The markers were erected by local community groups and the equal justice…

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New Report Says 2,000 Blacks Lynched During Reconstruction Era

A new report from the Equal Justice Initiative (EJI) says that from the end of the Civil War in 1865 until the traditional close of…

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“They hung three or four negroes nearly dead” The Ku Klux in Florence, Ala. Nov. 26, 1868

This account of a Ku Klux Klan occupation of Florence comes from the Democratic newspaper the Daily Phoenix. It was originally published in the Memphis…

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New Pavilion to Victims of Lynching from 1865 to 1877 Opened in Montgomery, Ala.

The Equal Justice Initiative (EIJ) has attracted a lot of attention over the last several years for its marking of lynching sites throughout the United…

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People Still Care About History Say the 400,000 Americans Who Visited Lynching Memorial Last Year

Bryan Stevenson, author, lawyer, and founder of the Equal Justice Initiative in Montgomery, Alabama, was interviewed on WNYC today. The second segment covers the new memorial…

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