Tag: Lynching
From grandfather to grandson, the lessons of the Tulsa race massacre
Gregory B. Fairchild, University of Virginia
My family sat down to watch the first episode of HBO’s “Watchmen” last October. Stephen Williams, the director, included...
Misery and memory in Glendora, Mississippi: How poverty is reshaping the...
Dave Tell, University of Kansas
In August of 1955, Emmett Till was lynched in the Mississippi Delta. The 14-year-old African American reportedly whistled at a...
Super Bowl LIII and the soul of Atlanta
Derrick P. Alridge, University of Virginia
As a historian who studies W.E.B. Du Bois – and as someone who once lived in nearby Athens, Georgia...
Lynching memorial will show that women were victims, too
Evelyn M. Simien, University of Connecticut
A memorial to victims of lynching in the U.S. opens in Alabama on April 26, 2018.
The National Memorial for...