lynching

Journalist, civil rights activist and suffragist, she dedicated her life to documenting injustices against Black Americans and calling for change.

Activists around the country are debating the best ways to acknowledge lynchings. But they often meet resistance from local residents — both Black and White.

A project to bring to light the stories of these victims’ lives and to highlight the patterns of racial terror perpetrated across the Northeast and Midwest.

Henry Choate, 18, was killed, dragged from the back of a car through Columbia, Tenn., and his body was hanged at the Maury County Courthouse.

On Philip Dray’s “A Lynching at Port Jervis.”

After years of opposition and delay, Waco finally has posted a historical marker about the 1916 murder of Jesse Washington.

In Maryland, a memorial for two lynching victims reveals how America is grappling with its history of racial terror.

Pvt. Felix Hall’s killers were never brought to justice.

In 1955, just past daybreak, a Chevrolet truck pulled up to an unmarked building. A 14-year-old child was in the back.

The city will memorialize part of its darkest history at the refurnished Walnut Street Bridge.

Mabel Wilson discusses the history of racial violence and the continued vandalism and destruction of Black historical memorials in the Deep South.

An accomplice of Emmett Till's killers murdered a Black man in a neighboring town, and there were parallels in the trials.

There are always three violences. The first is the violence itself.

Mass lynchings of Black people following the Civil War.

I live in a place where the wind blows history into my path.

Religion was no barrier for Southern lynch mobs intent on terror.

The ruins of a country store suggest that locals have neglected the memory of Emmett Till’s murder.

After decades of silence, one man pursues accountability, apologies and the meaning of racial reconciliation.

Sherilynn A. Ifill on justice (and its absence) in the 1930s.

While lynching is most closely associated with former Confederate states, hundreds were committed elsewhere in the country.