lynchings

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• SOURCE: BBC News
  3/31/19
  

  New Orleans mayor to apologise for 1891 lynching of Italian-Americans

  John Fratta, from the Order of the Sons of Italy, says the apology is about making people more aware of the episode - particularly because "they don't teach this in schools".

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• SOURCE: The Washington Post
  12-28-2018
  

  Why it took a century to pass an anti-lynching law

  by Louis P. Masur

  A century of political organizing could not overcome a powerful tool of white supremacy — until now.

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• SOURCE: Haaretz
  10-29-18
  

  From Lynchings to Mass Shootings: The History of Deadly Attacks on Jews in America

  Lethal attacks on U.S. Jews in their homeland have been very rare, with Saturday’s mass shooting in Pittsburgh more than doubling the total number of fatalities – but white supremacists have targeted the community over the years.

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• SOURCE: New Yorker
  8-22-16
  

  New Yorker profiles activist who's drawing attention to lynchings

  by Jeffrey Toobin

  In Alabama, Bryan Stevenson is saving inmates from execution and memorializing the darkest episodes of America’s past.

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• SOURCE: Equal Justice Initiative
  2-10-15
  

  New lynching report documents an era of racial terrorism

  Lynching in America makes the case that lynching of African Americans was terrorism, a widely supported phenomenon used to enforce racial subordination and segregation.

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• The Roots of White Rage

  by Carole Emberton

   In the immediate aftermath of the Civil War, white Southerners lashed out with homicidal rage against their former bondsmen.