Rebels Aren’t the Noble Warriors They Would Like to Think They Are (1861), The Civil War Was Over, but Not the Bloodthirsty Racism (1866), Take Your Fugitive Slave Law and Shove It! (1836), Killing Anti-Eviction Protesters Isn’t a Good Look (1931)
Disgraceful, Cruel, Iniquitous War (1846), When Klan Attacks, Where's the Cops? (1961), Picketing the White House (1966), Violence Against the Left (1966), ‘A Shame to Our Country’ (1860), Lynching News Sells Newspapers (1936), Victim-Blaming (1961)
Gotta Go Down and Join the Union (1976), Lynchings on Long Island (1946), Autherine Lucy Didn’t Know the Meaning of ‘Quit’ (1956), Baby Doc Throws In the Towel (1986), Tell the Crowd How You Really Feel! (1911), Free and Fearless (1941)
Since 2021, the Eastern Kentucky Remembrance Project has been planting markers memorializing Black residents killed by racist violence. On 31 May, a historical marker was placed outside the former Wayland jail where Fred Shannon was killed in 1924.
Lift Every Voice and Sing! (1900), Michigan Rejects the So-Called Fugitive Slave Act (1855), Our Place in the Universe (1990), Confronting a Campaign of Terror (2015), An Outrageous Verdict, Reversed on Appeal (1970)
Retracing the steps of a Texan lynched in 1921 requires a trip through dark days in state history.
Tom Mooney Reprieved (in 1918), Oil Embargo Layoffs (1973), Vaccine for Millions (1803), "Unrestrained, Indiscriminate Police Violence" (1968), Monroe Doctrine is Too Old (1823), NYC Says 'No' to Lynch Law (1933), Slavery's Enemies Organize (1833)
A growth industry is a sector of an economy that experiences a higher-than-average growth rate compared to other sectors. Growth industries are often new or pioneer industries that did not exist in the past. Lynching Black men is nothing new....
How the American system can, and often does, protect tyrannical and overbearing minorities, like the architects of Jim Crow.
The Civil Rights Movement did have its shortcomings, it did not fail because we successfully carried the torch a significant distance down Freedom Road. Now, we hand off to the next generation, and all the generations of freedom fighters to come.
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