Lynchings and the Ku Klux Klan

“Mob violence and lynching were common against African Americans in the South from the 1890s through the 1920s.”

This image was created on December 31, 1924.

If you can stomach it, watch this prezi.com presentation on lynchings.

Here’s an additional image from the 1920s about efforts to make lynching a federal crime—

A promotional poster published by the NAACP in 1922 encouraging support for Representative Dyer’s anti-lynching bill, which was then before the US Senate. Unfortunately, senate Democrats repeatedly filibustered the bill and successfully prevented it from passing.

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The Importance of Getting History Right, Part 7