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The Freedom-Lovers’ Roll Call Wall

Stories Behind the Postcards: Paintings and Collages of Jennifer Scott

Risking Everything: The Fight for Black Voting Rights

Portraiture of Resistance

Memorial to the Victims of Lynching

Freedom-Lovers’ Pledge

Echoes of Equality: Art Inspired by Memphis and Maya

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An NAACP flyer campaigning for the Dyer Anti-Lynching Bill, which passed the U.S. House of Representatives in 1922, but was filibustered to defeat in the Senate. Dyer, the NAACP, and freedom fighters around the country, like Flossie Baily, struggled for years to get the Dyer and other anti-lynching bills passed, to no avail. Today there is still no U.S. law specifically against lynching. In 2005, eighty of the 100 U.S. Senators voted for a resolution to apologize to victims' families and the country for their failure to outlaw lynching. Courtesy of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP).
Some Exhibits to Come – One Hundred Years of Jim Crow
Mammy Statue JC Museum Ferris
Bibliography – One Hundred Years Of Jim Crow
Claude, age 23, just months before his 1930 murder. Courtesy of Faith Deeter.
Freedom’s Heroes During Jim Crow: Flossie Bailey and the Deeters
Souvenir Portrait of the Lynching of Abram Smith and Thomas Shipp, August 7, 1930, by studio photographer Lawrence Beitler. Courtesy of the Indiana Hisorical Society.
An Iconic Lynching in the North
Lynching Quilt
Claxton Dekle – Prosperous Farmer, Husband & Father of Two
Ancient manuscripts about mathematics and astronomy from Timbuktu, Mali
Some Exhibits to Come – African Peoples Before Captivity
Shackles for Adults & Children from the Henrietta Marie
Some Exhibits to Come – The Middle Passage
Slaveship Stowage Plan
What I Saw Aboard a Slave Ship in 1829
Arno Michaels
Life After Hate: A Former White Power Leader Redeems Himself

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"Kentucky's Crime." News clippings from the Richmond Planet. Aug 26, 1893
Seay J. (C. J.) Miller

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Name (Last, First) Murdered In Date
1 Victim - Name UnreportedNew Madrid, MissouriMay 30, 1910
1 Victim - Name UnreportedNew Madrid, MissouriNovember 29, 1898
1 Victim - Name UnreportedVerona, MissouriJanuary 22, 1894
Allen, WilliamSpringfield, MissouriApril 15, 1906
Brown, ErastusVilla Ridge, MissouriJuly 10, 1897
Buckner, JohnVally Park, MissouriJanuary 17, 1894
Burke, GeorgeColumbia, MissouriSeptember 17, 1889
Chandler, FayetteSt. Charles, MissouriApril 3, 1916
Chowagee, MundeeMarshall, MissouriApril 28, 1900
Clark, AndyLeeper, MissouriJanuary 21, 1903
Coleman, RobertCharleston, MissouriJuly 3, 1910
Collins, J.C.Mondak, MissouriApril 5, 1913
Collins, ParaleeWest Plains, MissouriJune 7, 1914
Coker, Fred (aka Copeland, James)Springfield, MissouriApril 14, 1906
Darley, HenryLiberty, MissouriMay 4, 1900
Divers, EmmetFulton, MissouriAugust 15, 1895
Duncan, HoraceSpringfield, MissouriApril 14, 1906
Duncan, HarrySpringfield, MissouriApril 4, 1906
Embree, FrankSteinmetz, MissouriJuly 23, 1899
Field, SamCharleston, MissouriJuly 3, 1910
Gates, HarryLexington, MissouriAugust 12, 1902
Gilyard, ThomasJoplin, MissouriApril 15, 1903
Godley, FrenchPierce City, MissouriAugust 19, 1901
Godley, WilliamPierce City, MissouriAugust 19, 1901
Grigsby, RooseveltCharleston, MissouriDecember 18, 1824
Gunn, RaymondMaryville, MissouriJanuary 12, 1931
Hampton, PeterPierce City, MissouriAugust 290, 1901
Harrington, LeviKansas City, MissouriApril 3, 1882
Hayden, ThomasFayette, MissouriNovember 1, 1899
Haydon, UlysessMonett, MissouriJune 29, 1894
Henderson, WilliamJackson, MissouriOctober 11, 1895
Hepler, RobertNevada, MissouriJanuary 22, 1892
Hughes, JohnMoberly, MissouriFebruary 18, 1893
Johnson, Joseph AHiller Creek, MissouriJuly 2, 1894
Johnson, GeorgePlatte City, MissouriAugust 1, 1909
Kollins, IsaacWest Plains, MissouriJune 17, 1914
Lane, RuddLouisiana, MissouriSeptember 1, 1915
Malone, D.Caruthersville, MissouriMay 3, 1903
Mayes, RichardSpringfield, MissouriFebruary 21, 1893
McIntosh, FrancisSt. Louis, MissouriApril 28, 1836
McNeal, ArthurRichmond, MissouriMarch 2, 1901
Mooneyhon, W.J.Caruthersville, MissouriMay 3, 1903
Pettigrew, RobertBelmont, MissouriMay 12, 1905
Richardson, A.B.Caruthersville, MissouriOctober 11, 1911
Shields, DallasFayette, MissouriMarch 19, 1914
Simpson, NelsonNeelyville, MissouriJanuary 3, 1901
Sims, DavidClarkton, MissouriApril 27, 1892
Smith, BenjaminLa Plata, MissouriAugust 3, 1889
Smith, ThomasPolar Bluff, MissouriSeptember 3, 1890
Sykes, SamuelHayti, MissouriJanuary 3, 1916
Tracy, GeorgeKingston, MissouriFebruary 7, 1895
Truxton, OlliGlasgow, MissouriJanuary 3, 1891
WardGalena, MissouriFebruary 2, 1898
Warner, LloydSt. Joseph, MissouriNovember 28, 1933
Williams, HenryMacon, MissouriJune 30, 1898
Williams, W.F.Mt. Pleasant, MissouriFebruary 21, 1915
Woods, BenjaminCaruthersville, MissouriOctober 11, 1911
Wright, OliverHighee, MissouriMarch 26, 1902
Wright, LouisNew Madrid, MissouriFebruary 17, 1902
Wright, CleoSikeston, MissouriJanuary 25, 1942
Young, CurtinClarkville, MissouriJune 6, 1898
Young, SamClarkville, MissouriJune 6, 1898
Bush, GeorgeColumbia, MissouriSeptember 7, 1889
1 Victim - Name UnreportedSt. Louis, MissouriJune 1903
Scott, James T.Columbia, MissouriApril 29, 1923
Sherod, WillBraggadocio, MissouriMay 22, 1927

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