George Meadows: Lynched in Jefferson County, Alabama, After a Flawed Accusation
George Meadows, an African American man and recent arrival to the Pratt Mines area in Jefferson County, Alabama, was lynched by a mob of white...
Author : joe bodego
The East St. Louis Riots (Massacre) of 1917
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One of the Bloodiest Episodes of Racial Violence in American History The East St. Louis riots, often referred to as the East St. Louis massacre,...
The Federal Anti-Lynching Legislation: A Century-Long Struggle for Justice
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Lynching—the extrajudicial killing of individuals, often by mobs, typically as a form of racial terror—cast a long shadow over American history, particularly in the post-Reconstruction...
Lynch Mobs: Extrajudicial Violence, Racial Terror, & Mob Justice Across History
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A lynch mob refers to a group of people who take the law into their own hands to punish, often lethally, an individual accused (rightly...
Nine Black Men Lynched in One Day: The 1908 Sabine County Massacre
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On June 22, 1908, a white mob in Sabine County, Texas, carried out one of the most brutal episodes of racial violence in the state’s...
Black Man Lynched in Alabama for Failing to Call a White Man “Mr.”
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On June 21, 1940, in Luverne, Alabama, a trivial act of speech cost 26-year-old Jesse Thornton his life. Thornton, a Black resident of the small...
Jack Chatfield
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Jack Chatfield (July 20, 1942 – September 18, 2014) was an American historian, educator, and civil rights activist known for his courageous work with the...
Sheriff’s Deputies in Gadsden, Alabama, Use Cattle Prods to Torture Civil Rights Demonstrators
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On June 18, 1963, law enforcement officers in Gadsden, Alabama, deployed electric cattle prods against hundreds of Black civil rights protesters during a major sit-in...
Cotton Mather
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Cotton Mather (February 12, 1663 – February 13/15, 1728) was a prominent Puritan minister, prolific author, and one of the most influential intellectual figures in...
Onesimus
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Onesimus (late 1600s–early 1700s) was an enslaved West African man whose knowledge of variolation (an early form of inoculation against smallpox) helped save hundreds of lives...