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Risking Everything: The Fight for Black Voting Rights

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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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Name Murdered In Date
2 Victims - Names UnreportedPitt County, NCMay 11, 1899
1 Victim - Name UnreportedCharlotte, NCMay 26, 1910
1 Victim - Name UnreportedForest City, NCSeptember 1, 1900
1 Victim - Name UnreportedPine Level, NCJanuary 12, 1908
1 Victim - Name UnreportedPocket Township, NCJanuary 6, 1893
1 Victim - Name UnreportedSeaboard, NCMay 19, 1904
1 Victim - Name UnreportedPelham, NCOctober 8, 1910
Bazemore, PeterLewiston, NCMarch 26, 1918
Barrier, RobertLexington, NCOctober 25, 1889
Bess, MackNearland, NCSeptember 8, 1891
Black, JosephKingston, NCApril 5, 1916
Boone, DavidMorganton, NCSeptember 11, 1889
Burris, J AAlbemarie, NCJune 12, 1896
Charmers, RobertCranberry, NCApril 22, 1896
Dillingham, JackSalisbury, NCAugust 6, 1906
Freeman, KinchWinston, NCDecember 24, 1890
Gillespie, HarrisonSalisbury, NCJune 11, 1902
Gillespie, JohnSalisbury, NCAugust 6, 1906
Gillespie, NeaseSalisbury, NCAugust 6, 1906
Green, PowellFranklin County, North CarolinaDecember 27, 1919
Harris, WilliamAsheville, NCNovember 15, 1906
Hough, LukeWadesborough, NCAugust 21, 1901
Johnson, ThomasConcord, NCMarch 29, 1897
Jones, HenryHarps Cross, NCJanuary 11, 1899
Jones, ThomasSeven Springs, NCAugust 25, 1902
Kiser, JosephConcord, NCMay 29, 1897
Lincoln, IsaacFt. Madison, NCJune 2, 1893
McNeely, JosephCharlotte, NCAugust 26, 1913
Melker, RobertCherryville, NCApril 13, 1905
Moore, JohnClark, NCAugust 27, 1905
Moore, OliverTarboro, NCAugust 19, 1930
Outlaw, WyattGraham, NCFebruary 27, 1970
Purdee, LymanElizabethtown, NCMay 3, 1892
Rankin, HezekiahAsheville, NCSeptember 25, 1891
Ratcliffe, GeorgeClyde, NCMarch 4, 1900
Richards, JohnGoldsboro, NCJanuary 12, 1916
Ritter, GeorgeCarthage, NCMarch 22, 1900
Sigmond, JohnStanley Creek, NCSeptember 1889
Stack, FrankMorganton, NCSeptember 11, 1889
Taylor, GeorgeRolesville, NCNovember 5, 1918
Walker, JamesWashington, NCMarch 25, 1902
Whitson, ThomasAsheville, NCFebruary 24, 1893
Whitson, WilsonAsheville, NCFebruary 24, 1893
Willis, NathanTown Creek, NCNovember 27, 1897
Wilson, JamesWendell, NCJanuary 27, 1914
Finch, JerryChatham, NCSeptember 29, 1885
Finch, HarrietChatham, NCSeptember 29, 1885
Tyson, LeeChatham, NCSeptember 29, 1885
Pattishall, JohnChatham, NCSeptember 29, 1885
Mills, AveryForest City, NCAugust 29, 1900
Lee, HenrySalisbury, NCAugust 6, 1906
Irwin, GeorgeSalisbury, NCAugust 6, 1906
Roach, Edward "Red"Roxboro, NCJuly 7, 1920
Eley, JesseMurfeesboro, NCJune 20, 1921
Daniele, EugenePittsboro, NCSeptember 18, 1921
Bradshaw, ThomasBailey, NCAugust 2, 1927

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