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News Articles: lynching

A woman holds a sign in honor of Emmett Till during a protest on June 13, 2020, in Chicago. Protests erupted across the U.S. after George Floyd was killed while in police custody in Minneapolis on May 25, 2020.

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Lynching is now a federal hate crime after a century of blocked efforts

President Biden signed the Emmett Till Antilynching Act into law, the culmination of more than a century of efforts to designate lynching as a federal hate crime.

March 29, 2022
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By:
  • Eric McDaniel and
  • Elena Moore
Attendees of the memorial for Warren Powell look on as a quilt is displayed depicting the events of his murder.

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Remembering Warren Powell, Zeb Long and the lives taken by racist violence in Georgia history

Warren Powell is one of at least 35 African American victims of “racial terror lynching” in Fulton County between 1877 and 1950, according to research by the Equal Justice Initiative. Statewide, the EJI documents 595 lynching motivated by racial animus in that same period. Now, community groups across Georgia are remembering the Black life, like Powell’s, taken by historical acts of racial violence.

March 10, 2022
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  • Sam Bermas-Dawes
GPB News NPR

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After more than a century of trying, Congress passes an anti-lynching bill

Passage of the legislation to make lynching a federal crime is a major milestone after more than 200 attempts to pass such legislation failed over the course of a century.

March 08, 2022
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  • The Associated Press
Panelists Durwood Snead, Congresswoman Carolyn Bourdeaux, Descendents Elon Butts Osby, James B Knuckels, Judge Rodney Harris, and Deacon Billy Green speak at Poplar Baptist Church about the 1912 Forsyth County Racial Cleansing.

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Descendants of victims of Forsyth County's 1912 racial cleansing return to share family history

One hundred years after white mobs in Forsyth County pushed out Black residents during the county's 1912 racial cleansing, descendants are returning to ensure their family stories are told.

February 24, 2022
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By:
  • Amanda Andrews
Maryland Gov. Larry Hogan, far right, Baltimore County Executive John Olszewski and Maryland House Speaker Adrienne Jones stand next to a new historic marker on Saturday in Towson, Md., that memorializes Howard Cooper, a 15-year-old who was dragged from a jailhouse and hanged by a mob in 1885.

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Maryland Governor Grants Posthumous Pardons To 34 Black Lynching Victims

Maryland is the first state to issue a comprehensive set of pardons to the victims of lynching. Across the U.S., more than 4,000 Black people were lynched in acts of racial terror.

May 09, 2021
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  • Eric McDaniel
Claudia and Pierre Lacy from the film "Always in Season."

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'Always In Season' Examines Generational Trauma Of Lynchings, Sparks Discussion Across Racial Lines

The 2019 documentary Always In Season looks at the history of racism and lynching in the U.S. and connects it to the racial climate and justice today. As part of this narrative, the film follows the annual reenactment of the killing of four people by a mob in Monroe, Georgia in 1946 — known as the Moore’s Ford lynchings. To mark the annual reenactment, On Second Thought revisits our February discussion with Jacqueline Olive, director of Always in Season.

July 23, 2020
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  • Virginia Prescott and
  • Emilia Brock
A makeshift memorial is pictured after a Juneteenth demonstration in Palmdale, Calif., at the tree where Robert Fuller was found dead.

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Death Of Robert Fuller, Who Was Found Hanging From Tree, Ruled Suicide

Fuller's death on June 10 was initially ruled a suicide, but that conclusion outraged his family, who insisted that he would not take his own life.

July 09, 2020
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  • Scott Neuman
Tyrone Brooks leads a tour through a cemetery of anonymous graves surrounded by an office park to a marker for 1946 lynching victim Mae Murray Dorsey.

Federal Court Will Not Unseal Documents In 1940s Lynching

A federal appeals court has ruled it will not allow the unsealing of over 70-year-old grand jury documents tied to a notorious Georgia lynching. The 8-4...

May 14, 2020
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  • Grant Blankenship
Claudia and Pierre Lacy from the documentary 'Always in Season.' The film makes its television premiere on PBS' Independent Lens on Monday, Feb. 24.

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  • Race

'Always In Season' Examines Generational Trauma Of Lynchings, Sparks Discussion Across Racial Lines

The Equal Justice Initiative documents nearly 5,000 lynchings in America between 1877 and 1950, though the number is likely higher. The vast majority of...

February 21, 2020
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  • Virginia Prescott and
  • Emilia Brock
For 15 years, local actors have reenacted the lynching of four people at the Moore's Ford Bridge outside the city of Monroe in Walton County.

Records From Annually Reenacted Lynching Have Day In Court

Advocates for justice in a 73-year-old Georgia lynching made the case Tuesday for release of grand jury records in federal court. Activists have...

October 22, 2019
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  • Grant Blankenship

Officials Recognize Controversial History with New Landmark

On Tuesday, members of the Dekalb County Commission unanimously passed a measure to build a memorial to recognize victims of lynching and racial...

January 24, 2019
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  • Morgan Carter and
  • Sophia Saliby
800 steel columns inside of the National Memorial For Peace and Justice in Montgomery, Ala. The columns recognize the names of lynching victims.

Remembering Georgia's 600 Lynching Victims

Georgia has the second-highest number of undocumented lynchings. A 2015 report by the Equal Justice Initiative found nearly 600 cases in the state.

October 30, 2018
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By:
  • Virginia Prescott and
  • La'Raven Taylor
Henry "Peg" Gilbert was arrested, jailed, beaten to death and lynched in 1947 in Harris County, Georgia.

Her Grandfather Was Lynched In Georgia 70 Years Ago. 'There Was No Therapy Back Then.'

In 1947 in Harris County, Georgia, an African-American man named Henry “Peg” Gilbert was arrested and jailed, without legal cause. Five days later, a...

May 22, 2018
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By:
  • Summer Evans and
  • Adam Ragusea

On Second Thought For Monday, May 21, 2018

The United States Department of Justice estimates nearly two-thirds of all jail inmates have mental health problems. In Georgia, a new investigation...

May 21, 2018
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  • Sean Powers
The National Memorial for Peace and Justice in Montgomery, Alabama opens to the public April 26.

New Memorial Confronts History Of Racial Lynching

The National Memorial for Peace and Justice details a painful legacy in American history: the lynchings of thousands of African-American men, women and...

May 01, 2018
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  • Celeste Headlee and
  • Sean Powers
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