Lynching

Ida: A Sword Among Lions: Ida B. Wells and the Campaign Against Lynching

May 12, 2022

By Paula J. Giddings (NHC Fellow, 1993–94) From a thinker who Maya Angelou has praised for shining “a brilliant light on the lives of women left in the shadow of history,” comes the definitive biography of Ida B. Wells—crusading journalist and pioneer in the fight for women’s suffrage and against segregation and lynchings Ida B. … Continued

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The End of American Lynching

May 12, 2022

By Ashraf H. A. Rushdy (NHC Fellow, 1998–99) The End of American Lynching questions how we think about the dynamics of lynching, what lynchings mean to the society in which they occur, how lynching is defined, and the circumstances that lead to lynching. Ashraf H. A. Rushdy looks at three lynchings over the course of the … Continued

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Under Sentence of Death: Lynching in the South

May 12, 2022

Edited by W. Fitzhugh Brundage (NHC Fellow, 1995–96)

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