lynching
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There are moments in history when the violence of an age becomes concentrated into the life of a single human being. Emmett Louis Till was fourteen years old when that happened to him. He was a child from Chicago who travelled south in the summer of 1955 to visit relatives in Mississippi. He arrived carrying…
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I don’t think there is a more powerful song then ” Strange Fruit” which deals with racism. Especially the original version sung by Billie Holiday. The lynching of black men in the American South was an all-too-familiar occurrence in the 1930s, even though it rarely made news. So when Billie Holiday had a hit record…
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On the night of August 7, 1930, the small city of Marion, Indiana became the site of one of the most infamous and haunting episodes of racial violence in American history—the lynching of Thomas Shipp and Abram Smith. What makes this event particularly searing in the American consciousness isn’t just the brutality of the act.…
History of Sorts 