racial violence

In 1887, African-American cane workers in Louisiana attempted to organize—and many paid with their lives.

How did Calle de los Negros get its name? And why did the city raze it in 1887?

Blaming “bad dudes”—ignores the role of women in the white nationalist movement.

A dark moment in American history offers lessons for the present.

With Donald Trump bringing the Ku Klux Klan back into the spotlight, we must return to William Bradford Huie's 1967 novel.

Was the white-nationalist march better understood as a departure from America’s traditional values, or viewed in the context of its history?

Capital punishment and the legacy of terror lynching in the American South.

Racial violence destroyed an affluent African-American community, seen as a threat to white-dominated American capitalism.

A new digital exhibit confronts the legacy of racial terror.

On these pages you will meet Monroe Nathan Work, who lived from 1866- 1945. This website is a rebirth of one piece of his work.

The woman whose testimony was central to the infamous case admits feeling 'tender sorrow.'

South Carolina’s Ben Tillman and the 2016 presidential election.

The susceptibility of black ex-soldiers to extrajudicial murder and assault has long been recognized by historians.

From lynching photos to Black Lives Matter – what does it mean to look at images of African Americans being murdered?

On August 7, 1930, three black teenagers were lynched in Marion, Indiana. James Cameron was one of them.

A lawyer details the attack by hundreds of whites on the black neighborhood where hundreds died 95 years ago.

The untold story of the eradication of the original Ku Klux Klan.

A new book re-traces the origins of the 19th-century KKK, which began as a social club before swiftly moving to murder.

In 1919, white Americans visited awful violence on black Americans. So black Americans decided to fight back.

Patsy Sims reflects on her interview with the man who was instrumental in the death of three black men in Mississippi.