thesociologicalcinema:The Lynching Trail, 1882-1930Racial violence in America is a well-told story.
thesociologicalcinema:The Lynching Trail, 1882-1930Racial violence in America is a well-told story. But the importance of land as a motive for lynchings has gone largely overlooked. Historians say prosperous blacks–and black landowners–often became targets of white lynch mobs, whose attacks could triger an exodus of blacks. “If you are looking for stolen black land,” says Ray Winbush, director of Fisk University’s Race Relations Institute, “just follow the lynching trail.” More than 3,000 blacks were lynched between 1865 and 1965, according to the Tuskegee Institue and the NAACP. This map shows lynchings confirmed by researchers who worked from a list begun by the Chicago Tribune in 1882, and later expanded upon by the NAACP and Tuskegee.Source: Tolnay, Steward E. and E.M. Beck. “A Festival of Violence.” -- source link
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