Every time a lynching occurred in the U.S. between 1920 and 1936, the NAACP flew this flag from their headquarters on Fifth Avenue in New York. Library of Congress. Can one flag really change public ...

Introduction : whose evidence? Which account? -- Making lynching drama and its contributions legible -- Scenes and scenarios: reading aright -- Redefining "black theater" -- Developing a genre, ...

George Hughes, left, before he was lynched by a white mob. In May of 1930, the North Texas city of Sherman changed forever. During the trial of George Hughes, a 41-year-old Black farm worker accused ...

The horrors of war -- The violent transition from freedom to segregation -- Southern white women and the anti-rape movement -- Organizing in defense of black womanhood -- New southern women and the ...

Her voice carried the kind of reverence that comes when you’re about to be invited into sacred work. “We have another lynching […] The post A Morehouse student Was Lynched in 1930. Why the College ...

A Texas public relations firm with clients in San Antonio has changed its name after the company was barraged with social media messages questioning why they used a name most affiliated with a 1937 ...