by lindaoppenheim | Jan 1, 2019 | Opinion, Truth and Reconciliation
William C. Anderson’s essay is “A reflection on the commodification of Jim Crow’s violence through public memorials. It’s imperative for those paying respects to understand and interrogate civil rights museums, memorials, and any other commemorations of...
by lindaoppenheim | Jan 1, 2019 | Article
Susan Svrluga describes how a protest against lynching by Howard University students in the 1930s set an example for University of North Carolina protesting the statue on campus known as Silent Sam that honors the Confederacy. To read the article, click...
by lindaoppenheim | Sep 5, 2018 | Events
On Wednesday, September 12, 2018, at 4:30 pm in the Arthur Lewis Auditorium, Robertson Hall, Desmond Jagmohan will present the Constitution Day Lecture, “Constituting Justice: Ida B. Wells’s Anti-Lynching Campaign.” Desmond Jagmohan is an assistant...
by lindaoppenheim | Aug 16, 2018 | Article
Fifty years after Martin Luther King’s assassination in Memphis, Martha Park gives examples of lynchings of African Americans in that city at the end of the nineteenth century, illustrating how “[b]eing too rich or too poor could have fatal consequences for...
by lindaoppenheim | Jul 10, 2018 | Article
James Byrd’s sisters and the sheriff who investigated recall Byrd’s lynching and aftermath twenty years ago in Jasper, Texas. Warning: violent details included in the story. Click here to read the account in the New York Times.
