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SOURCE: The Atlantic
11/14/2022
Monuments to the Unthinkable
by Clint Smith
German and European memorials to the Holocaust contrast starkly with an American memorial culture where the Confederate dead are revered, former slave plantations are tourist attractions, and state legislatures are seeking to ban the teaching of the nation's history in full.
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SOURCE: The Hub
10/27/2022
Koritha Mitchell Discusses Representation of Racist Violence and "Till"
Prof. Mitchell and host Karen Hunter discuss who the audience is for "Till" and whether movies about lynching are needed today.
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SOURCE: The Atlantic
10/20/2022
A Lesson in Humility and Justice
by Imani Pery
Margaret Burnham's study of lynching and of the legal sanction given to racist violence stands in a long tradition of African American intellectuals who have recognized the need to study society in order to change it.
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SOURCE: NPR
9/27/2022
Law Professor Unearths Murder Cases from Jim Crow Era
Margaret Burnham has been appointed by President Biden to a five-person Civil Rights Cold Case Review Board to increase public access to records of unsolved racially motivated crimes.
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SOURCE: WBUR
9/26/2022
Education or Trauma: Debating the Movie Presentation of "Till"
Despite the violence and brutality of the subject matter, historian Keisha Blain calls the upcoming Emmett Till film essential viewing in a time when it can't be assumed that everyone knows the story.
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SOURCE: Mississippi Free Press
9/9/2022
Filmmaker Hopes Emmett Till Movie Will Spur New Evidence and Will to Pursue Justice
Filmmaker Keith Beauchamp hopes to "shake the trees so that a justice-seeking atmosphere could be formed that will allow people to feel comfortable coming forward with new evidence on the case.”
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SOURCE: The Nation
8/31/2022
Emmett Till's Lynching Catalyzed the Reactionary Denunciation of the "Liberal Media"
by Chris Lamb
To reactionary Southerners and white supremacists, media accounts of Emmett Till's murder had to be dismissed as "fake news" and countered with their own misinformation.
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SOURCE: CNN
7/22/2022
Till's Accuser's Memoir Shows the Pandora's Box She Opened has Never Closed
by Peniel E. Joseph
"What does it say about America that we are still in search of justice for the victim of an almost 70-year-old crime that helped spark the modern civil rights movement?"
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SOURCE: New York Times
7/17/2022
Charles Blow: Don't Shed Tears for Carolyn Bryant Donham
In a newly-discovered unpublished memoir, the woman who accused Emmett Till of making sexual advances presents a self-serving account of her role in the events that led to his murder.
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SOURCE: Associated Press
7/15/2022
Mississippi AG Will Not Reopen Till Lynching Case Despite Discovered Warrant for Carolyn Donham
The state's top prosecutor said that despite the discovery of the warrant and the publication of Ms. Donham's memoir, the woman at the center of the Till lynching will not be prosecuted.
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SOURCE: Mississippi Free Press
6/29/2022
Unserved Warrant for Carolyn Bryant Donham's Arrest in Till Lynching Discovered in Box in Courthouse Basement
The 1955 document demonstrates that the authorities in Leflore County believed that Donham, for whose honor the lynching was allegedly carried out, was present for the teenager's abduction, torture, or murder.
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SOURCE: The Conversation
5/30/2022
In one Family's Photo Album: A Wedding, An Anniversary, and a Lynching in Texas
by Jeffrey J. Littlejohn
The author set out to identify the victim of a lynching pictured in a family photoalbum. This project – pointing out the normalcy and pervasiveness of violence as a tool of white supremacy – could be illegal for a K-12 teacher in Texas today.
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SOURCE: Washington Post
2/14/2022
New Documentary Highlights Unsolved Civil Rights-Era Murder
Black citizens in Natchez, Mississippi secretly organized for community self-defense in 1965, risking certain reprisals from local whites. Wharlest Jackson was killed by a car bomb in an act of intimidation that was never solved.
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SOURCE: NPR
2/8/2022
Black Activists Used Lynching Souvenirs to Expose America's Racist Violence
Filmmaker Christine Turner has examined the souvenir postcards produced at lynchings for evidence of the planning and community sanction given to racist terrorism.
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SOURCE: The Guardian
12/18/2021
Ida B. Wells Became the Last Hope for 12 Men Convicted of False Charges During Elaine, Ark. Massacre
"Did Wells, an unflinching woman who had traveled the country to investigate the ruthless barbarity of white mobs in other lynchings and massacres, have that much power to save these Black men on death row in Arkansas?"
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SOURCE: New York Times
12/6/2021
Justice Department Closes Emmett Till Investigation Without Charges
Historian Timothy Tyson wrote in a 2017 book that witness Carolyn Bryant Donham disavowed her testimony that Till had grabbed her and made suggestive remarks before he was lynched. The DOJ has said that materials given them by Tyson did not corroborate the claim of a recantation.
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SOURCE: Made By History at the Washington Post
10/24/2021
150 Years Ago, a Mob Attacked Los Angeles's Chinese Community
by Reece Jones
It's essential to understand white supremacy as a national phenomenon that defended the color line against multiple groups and linked white identity to the nation's borders.
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SOURCE: University of Virginia Batten School
10/11/2021
New Research: More Lynchings in Places with More Confederate Monuments
Empirical research supports what activists have been saying for decades: Confederate memorials encourage violence in the name of white supremacy.
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SOURCE: NPR
10/3/2021
Bryan Stevenson's Legacy Museum in Montgomery Aims for Truth Telling
"I do think there's something powerful when you're standing in these spaces learning about this history, knowing that the soil you're standing on is the same soil where enslaved people sweated."
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SOURCE: Mississippi Free Press
9/1/2021
Journalist William Huie Concealed Lynchers In Emmett Till Case And Got Away With It
The commonly-know story of Emmett Till's lynching has long been distorted because a journalist who reported the accounts of two acquitted killers had written out other conspirators from the story for legal reasons.
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