lynching

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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  In a newly-discovered unpublished memoir, the woman who accused Emmett Till of making sexual advances presents a self-serving account of her role in the events that led to his murder.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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• 9/12/2021
  

  9/11's Memorials and the Politics of Historical Memory

  by Marita Sturken

  Major 9/11 memorials try to fix the public memory on a moment of national unity that, 20 years later, seems illusory. Other memorials point the way to using the force of memory to encourage critical reflection on nationalism.

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• SOURCE: New York Times
  8/20/2021
  

  Felix Hall Remembered 80 Years After Ft. Benning Lynching

  "This month — more than eight decades after Private Hall’s death — a plaque at Fort Benning was dedicated in his memory. But major details about his death remain unclear. Officials have been accused of failing to fully investigate what happened, and no one was ever charged."

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• SOURCE: New York Times
  8/20/2021
  

  Chattanooga Struggles to Heal the Scars of a Lynching

  by Peter Canellos

  "In a time of mistrust along racial lines, the initiative in Chattanooga is a model for other communities. It demonstrates that agreed-upon facts can be a precursor to recovery."