Robert Chambliss
Robert Edward Chambliss (January 14, 1904 – October 29, 1985), known as “Dynamite Bob,” was an American white supremacist, longtime Ku Klux Klan member, and explosives...
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William Lewis Moore
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William Lewis Moore (April 28, 1927 – April 23, 1963) was an American postal worker, former Marine, and Congress of Racial Equality (CORE) activist known...
Albert Jennings “Al” Lingo
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Albert Jennings “Al” Lingo (January 22, 1910 – August 17, 1969) was an Alabama law enforcement officer, businessman, and naval veteran best known as Director...
Joyce Bryant
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Joyce Bryant (born Ione Emily Bryant; October 14, 1927 – November 20, 2022) was an American singer, dancer, actress, and civil rights activist. She rose...
White People Should Stop Talking About Their Grandparents
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The myth of the “good grandfather” obscures a brutal history that demands humility, not celebration. When white Europeans, Americans, and Canadians speak of their grandparents,...
The 1934 Lynching of Claude Neal in Florida
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On the night of October 26, 1934, Claude Neal, a 23-year-old African American farmhand, was tortured and murdered by a white mob in Jackson County,...
The 1917 Lynching of Ell Persons in Memphis, Tennessee
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On May 22, 1917, a large white mob burned Ell Persons, a Black woodcutter approximately 50 years old, alive near the Macon Road bridge over...
The 1899 Lynching of Sam Hose
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On April 23, 1899, near Newnan in Coweta County, Georgia, a large white mob tortured and burned to death Sam Hose, a young African American...
Body Parts Taken as Souvenirs from Lynched Black Victims
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The practice of taking body parts as souvenirs from Black people who were lynched was a documented feature of many racial terror lynchings in the...
Virgil Blossom
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Virgil Tracy Blossom (October 31, 1906 – January 15, 1965) was an American educator and school administrator best known as superintendent of the Little Rock...