Readers of The Commercial Dispatch and dozens of other Southern newspapers in the early 20th century were greeted often, sometimes daily, sometimes on the front page, with “Hambone’s Meditations,” a…
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Bettye Gardner remembers her family telling her the tragic story of William Henderson Foote, her granduncle who was lynched in Yazoo City, Mississippi, in 1883.
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In the early 20th century, the people of Waco dubbed their city the “Athens of Texas.” Waco, however, had another side.
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Although lynch mobs primarily targeted Black people, the first effort to pass a federal anti-lynching law had nothing to do with African Americans. Instead, it followed the 1891 lynchings of…
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The bodies of Dooley Morton (L) and Bert Moore, of Lowndes County, are shown hanging from a tree after the two were lynched by an angry mob of white citizens…
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On Nov. 4, 1883, a white mob, fearful of Black political power and riled up by false newspaper narratives, took to the streets of Danville three days before the election…
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Hundreds of white-owned newspapers across the country incited the racist terror lynchings and massacres of thousands of Black Americans. In their headlines, these newspapers often promoted the brutality of white…
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Local newspaper editors in Virginia say they hadn’t been aware of their publications’ roles in the 1883 Danville massacre. “It’s just appalling,” Steven Doyle, editor of the Danville Register &…
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Local historians Dean Hairston and Karice Luck-Brimmer, who are both African American, had trouble discovering their family history in Danville, Virginia. African American history can be difficult to uncover. Traditional…
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