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Margaret A. Burnham

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A Record of Violence

Jim Crow terror, within and outside the law.

by Jeanne Theoharis, Margaret A. Burnham via Boston Review on July 26, 2023

By Hands Now Known: Jim Crow's Legal Executioners

Margaret A. Burnham

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Howard University students protesting outside the Attorney General’s Conference on Crime held at Memorial Continental Hall, Washington, D.C., December 13, 1934. The four-day conference failed to include lynching in its program.

A Regional Reign of Terror

Most Americans now grasp that violence was essential to the functioning of slavery, but a new book excavates the brutality of everyday Black life in the Jim Crow South.

by Eric Foner via New York Review of Books on March 16, 2023

Ida B. Wells

Ida B. Wells and the Long Crusade to Outlaw Lynching

Journalist, civil rights activist and suffragist, she dedicated her life to documenting injustices against Black Americans and calling for change.

via Retro Report on February 15, 2024

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