Posts Tagged ‘Lynching’
Lige Daniels
On August 3, 1920, the body of Lige Daniels, an African-American teenager, hung in the main square of Center, a small town near the border between Texas and Louisiana. The image of Lige on the cover of a lynching pictorial, Without Sanctuary, has received world-wide notoriety since first published by two white Atlantans, James Allen and John Littlefield. These lynching photographs were often made into postcards and sold as souvenirs to the crowds in attendance.
Read MoreMy First Visit to ABHM
A Milwaukee man treasures his visit to the earliest (1988) version of ABHM, his talk with founder James Cameron, and the book signed by Cameron to him with love.
Read MoreGoogle Launches ‘Lynching In America’ Project Exploring Country’s Violent Racial History
Google does the unthinkable and creates a project dedicated to the history of lynchings in America. Read all about it here.
Read MoreMS Rep. Karl Oliver issues statement on “lynching” post he made on Facebook
A state representative in Mississippi calls for lynching the leadership in New Orleans that sanctioned the removal of Confederate memorials to white supremacists.
Read MoreCeremony Of Remembrance Commemorates Brutal Lynching One Hundred Years Ago
A racially diverse group of citizens of Memphis TN holds a ceremony and erects a marker memorializing the very brutal lynching of Ell Persons exactly one century ago.
Read MoreHow Does a City Choose to Remember its Past?
Many Milwaukeeans are familiar with the 1854 abolitionist rescue of Joshua Glover, an African American who escaped slavery and found sanctuary in Wisconsin. Far fewer know about the horrific racial lynching of George Marshall Clark, a free black man, that happened only seven years later in Milwaukee. What was their story, and how have we remembered these two men?
Read MoreGeorge Marshall Clark
George Marshall Clark was 22 years old when he was murdered. He had been a barber, a trade he learned from his father, George Sr., who ran his business on Wisconsin Avenue. Clark resided with his friend, James Shelton, near 5th and State Streets. Shelton and Clark were arrested together, but Shelton escaped being dragged…
Read MoreAustin Callaway
Austin Callaway Share Special Exhibits 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 Explore Our Galleries African Peoples Before Captivity…
Read MoreGeorgia Police Chief, Other White Leaders Apologize for 1940 Lynching
The police chief of Lagrange, Georgia, along with the city’s mayor and the white business community, issued an apology to the Callaway family and the NAACP for the 1940 lynching of teenaged Austin Callaway. A commemorative ceremony and memorial plaque will be placed to honor Callaway and other victims of lynchings in the county.
Read MoreJoin abhm this wednesday for a book talk @ the villard square library!
The book talk for A Time of Terror will include readings from the book, an explanation of how it came to be, and a discussion of its relevance for today’s readers.
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