At The Legacy of Lynching, video installations tell the family stories of lynching victims.
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The goal with Lynching in America is to enable people to confront the history of lynching through research, data and the stories of those affected by lynching in America.
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This lynching was, in and of itself, a message lynching to say to black and white people: 'Segregate.
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The US House of Representatives passed an anti-lynching bill on Wednesday that would make lynching a federal crime.
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Danny Davis (D-Ill.) likening Clinton's impeachment to an "lynching": "I will not vote for this lynching in this people's house." pic.twitter.
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President Harry Truman ordered an extensive F.B.I. investigation of this horror, known as the Moore's Ford Bridge lynching, America's last mass lynching.
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"[T]his is a lynching," he tweeted, along with a photo of the lynching of George Meadows in Jefferson County, Alabama, in 1889.
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In 2005, the Senate agreed to apologize to the victims of lynching and their descendants for its failure to pass anti-lynching legislation.
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The proposal outlines the specific act of lynching -- a mob killing without legal authority -- and would add lynching to the federal list of hate crimes.
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The NAACP created a special committee to promote an anti-lynching law in 28500, and since then, some 6900 anti-lynching bills were introduced in Congress.
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In 2005 the Senate agreed to apologize to the victims and the descendants of the victims of lynching, for its failure to enact anti-lynching legislation.
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The Senate bill, called the Justice for Victims of Lynching Act, makes lynching a federal crime by establishing it as a new criminal civil rights violation.
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Some states passed anti-lynching laws, but they were roundly ignored, and federal efforts to pass anti-lynching legislation in the House of Representatives went nowhere, as Vox's P.R. Lockhart has explained: Efforts to pass anti-lynching legislation date back to 1900, when North Carolina Rep.
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The senator tweeted that it was "an attempted modern-day lynching" and connected it to the need to pass legislation designating lynching as a federal hate crime.
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In 2005, during Graham's first Senate term, a unanimous Senate passed a resolution apologizing to lynching victims and their descendants for the chamber's failure to enact anti-lynching legislation.
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"If shaming is for the purpose of sanctioning, for the purpose of annihilating a person, then I see it as a lynching per se, a virtual lynching," Epstein said.
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There was a voice-over of Clarence Thomas talking about being a victim of "high-tech lynching," and the audience collectively gasped because Trump's own lynching comment was trending.
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Last year, the Senate passed via unanimous consent the Justice for Victims of Lynching Act, which made lynching a federal crime by establishing it as a civil rights violation.
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In 2005, 90 members of the US Senate passed a bipartisan resolution apologizing to the victims of lynching for the repeated failure of the Senate to pass anti-lynching legislation.
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Al GreenAlexander (Al) N. GreenAl Green gives blistering speech decrying Trump 'lynching' comment: 'How dare he' Black lawmakers condemn Trump's 'lynching' remarks Al Green compares Trump 'lynching' comments to Charlottesville MORE (D-Texas), who has called for Trump's impeachment for years, compared Trump to white supremacists in a fiery House floor speech.
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Bobby RushBobby Lee RushBiden apologizes for calling Clinton impeachment a 'partisan lynching' AOC: Trump comparing impeachment inquiry to a lynching is 'atrocious' Susan Collins calls on Trump to retract tweet comparing impeachment inquiry to 'lynching' MORE (D-Ill.), a former member of the Black Panther Party, told Trump to delete the post.
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Bobby RushBobby Lee RushBiden apologizes for calling Clinton impeachment a 'partisan lynching' AOC: Trump comparing impeachment inquiry to a lynching is 'atrocious' Susan Collins calls on Trump to retract tweet comparing impeachment inquiry to 'lynching' MORE (D-Ill.), a civil rights activist and Black Panthers chapter founder, sharply criticized Trump over the tweet.
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The House bill as originally introduced outlines the violent history of lynching in the United States and catalogs the lengthy history of earlier attempts to pass anti-lynching legislation in Congress.
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" "There is no defense for making light of lynching.
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Nevertheless, when its current staff scrutinized the paper's lynching-era coverage, they concluded that it had conveniently opposed lynching in the abstract while responding with indifference to its bloody, real-world consequences.
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The text of the legislation outlines the violent and racist legacy of lynching in the United States and the many earlier, and unsuccessful, attempts to enact federal anti-lynching legislation into law.
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She became a passionate anti-racist educator in her freshman class and used the lynching photography website Without Sanctuary to teach her peers about the history of lynching in the United States.
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" The bill notes that "nearly 200 anti-lynching bills were introduced in Congress during the first half of the 20th century," and "between 1890 and 1952, 7 presidents petitioned Congress to end lynching.
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Some mourned what the lynching had done to their town.
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The act of lynching was, and remains, a horrific reality.
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He chose not to defend the president's remarks invoking lynching.
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Let's not forget about the horrifying history of lynching either.
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A controversial photo of the lynching has since become infamous.
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Why do you think body parts went missing during lynching?
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One sign features the name of lynching victim Emmett Till.
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But his administration's tepid response to the lynching of federal
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The comments sparked backlash given the state's history of lynching.
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Some people called it a lynching; authorities deemed it suicide.
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She just said this in the heart of lynching country.
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The project of The Legacy of Lynching seems altogether different.
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Mayor Edward I. Koch compared the attack to a lynching.
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Not that people read Wells and said stop lynching people.
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For Anderson, the allusion to lynching wasn't just a metaphor.
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That lynching is emotionally painful for Doria and her relatives.
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A lynching is a public spectacle; it demands an audience.
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It is true that while the anti-lynching bill protects several marginalized identities, including national origin, religion, and gender, the history of lynching in America means that the bill is most focused on race.
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The Memorial for Peace and Justice will allow local governments to take home full-size replicas of the lynching monuments that honor people killed in their localities, expanding the lynching memorial across the country.
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" Because lynching was often justified by allegations that black men had assaulted white women, a Tennessee congressman could remark in 19683 that an anti-lynching bill should be retitled "a bill to encourage rape.
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And in pointing to lynching to deal with accusations of assault, critics say these men also minimize the harm this practice has had on black communities that were exposed to lynching and its aftermath.
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If signed into law, the Justice for Victims of Lynching Act would outline the specific killing of lynching, noting its violent and racist legacy, and add it to the federal list of hate crimes.
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While this was Trump's first use of the phrase "lynching," he previously retweeted a statement in September 2015 that referred to his treatment from journalists as a "disgusting lynching" during the 2016 election, CNN reported.
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" Bacon thanked Rush and Harris for being champions of the issue, stating that it's long overdue for legislation to "specify criminal penalties for the crime of lynching or any attempt or conspiracy to commit lynching.
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Mike Santo, who serves as special counsel for the commission, said he'd become aware of the lynching a few years ago, realizing how the 1891 lynching was a "longstanding wound" for the Italian-American community.
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And you heard Dana Perino say it was a public lynching.
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Having written a book about lynching and slavery, not really [laughs].
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Ever heard of the lynching of Jewish-American engineer Leo Frank?
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The word lynching, given its history, should be repulsive to anyone.
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Booker and Harris to make lynching a federal hate crime. Sen.
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Some Republican allies agreed with Trump's use of the word lynching.
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A history of lynching must remember black women like Eliza Woods.
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I will not vote for this lynching in the people's House.
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Even several Republicans expressed dissent about the "lynching" tweet on Tuesday.
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The word lynching, given its history, should be repulsive to anyone.
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On Tuesday morning, Trump compared the impeachment investigation to a lynching.
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Lynching relied on the complicity and solidarity of the white community.
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"The government tolerated lynching just like they tolerated slavery," said Jackson.
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The symbols associated with lynching have reached college campuses as well.
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If not lynching, then slavery, Jim Crow, redlining, and so on.
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In 1894, responding to an international anti-lynching movement, Texas Gov.
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" One joked about lynching a Mexican child, calling it "pinata time.
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A police team reached the area after the lynching took place.
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Federal investigators also reopened the investigation into Till's lynching last year.
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Dr. Seguin is working on a book about lynching in America.
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In some places, lynching memories suppressed black voter participation for decades.
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Often newspapers document that a lynching occurred but otherwise prove unreliable.
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He wasn't actually dead at the time of the lynching, right?
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One of these plots lynching data by county across 20 states.
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He was related to John Moore, one of the lynching victims.
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" The inquiry, Graham told reporters, is "a lynching in every sense.
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It had probably been standing at the time of the lynching.
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The lynching comments were just the latest headache for the GOP.
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The Tulsa race massacre of 1921 was not a traditional lynching.
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That opening lynching sequence drops me back into that mood relentlessly.
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Bobby RushBobby Lee RushBiden apologizes for calling Clinton impeachment a 'partisan lynching' AOC: Trump comparing impeachment inquiry to a lynching is 'atrocious' Susan Collins calls on Trump to retract tweet comparing impeachment inquiry to 'lynching' MORE (D-Ill.), a civil rights activist who founded a chapter of the Black Panthers in the 1960s, called on Trump to delete the offensive tweet.
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By classifying lynching and attempted lynching as a federal hate crime, the bill enables judges to impose additional sentencing enhancements on top of any other charges when determining the punishment for those convicted of such crimes.
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Thurmond had been inaugurated [as governor] the month before the lynching, but as a former circuit judge, state senator, and army veteran hero, he was not inclined to remain silent about the necessity to condemn lynching.
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Of course, "surviving" lynching did not mean that women were not victimized.
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Two white men were acquitted in Till&aposs lynching, but later confessed.
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She traveled to Britain, where she started an international crusade against lynching.
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Graham said the treatment of Trump is a lynching in "every" sense.
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During this period, lynching could occur at any time for any reason.
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Over 4,000 names of lynching victims will be inscribed on these monuments.
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There is a lynching scene at the end of the first episode.
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The Supreme Court last year recommended making mob lynching a separate offense.
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As crime soars, the lynching of petty criminals is becoming more common.
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The Senate on Thursday cleared legislation to make lynching a federal crime.
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Women and children cut off the ears of lynching victims as souvenirs.
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Those texts disparaged gays, women, Mexicans and Filipinos, and proposed lynching blacks.
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The Senate cleared legislation on Wednesday to make lynching a federal crime.
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Harris called the alleged attack a "modern-day lynching" in late January.
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Richards is not the first modern protester to be charged with lynching.
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The piano damages the lynching tree, but it's also damaged by it.
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Another called the race a "high-tech lynching" No comment needed. 10.
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She had already shocked them by telling them about her granddaddy's lynching.
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In 1939, she notably recorded "Strange Fruit," which protested racism, particularly lynching.
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They have generated hateful xenophobic reactions, even lynching, in several host nations.
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She wrote it in 1964, near the end of the lynching era.
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Lynching was at the extreme end of a pervasive system of control.
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The House passed HR 35, anti-lynching legislation introduced by Democratic Rep.
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In turn, lynching transformed from a material reality to a political metaphor.
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In fact, the first bill to outlaw lynching was introduced in 1900.
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The journalist Ida B. Wells, who crusaded against lynching, led the ceremonies.
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Mr. Booker used the alleged assault to promote an anti-lynching bill.
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I have been threatened with lynching and having the bullet from a .
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Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden tweeted an apology Tuesday night after CNN reported he'd criticized President Trump for referring to the impeachment inquiry as a "lynching" yet called then-President Clinton's impeachment investigation a "partisan lynching" in 1998.
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Here's a look inside the National Memorial for Peace and Justice: Names of lynching victims and dates of their deaths are inscribed on corten steel monuments, representing each county in the United States where a lynching took place.
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John Ashworth, the project manager for the Lynching Sites Project of Memphis, which is trying to partner with E.J.I. to erect markers to 37 lynching victims in Shelby County, said that remembering men like Higginbotham is delicate work.
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Southern lawmakers traditionally prevailed by arguing against federal interference in local affairs, by positing that anti-lynching laws would be unconstitutional and by playing on racial fears with rhetoric about black rapists, a favorite boogeyman of lynching apologists.
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Both Democratic and Republican presidents during Jim Crow were unwilling to condemn lynching.
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Players learn about Wells' crusade against lynching by unlocking archives and solving puzzles.
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Lynching photographs circulated in newspapers, entering American homes along with the day's headlines.
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"Girl, white Democrats will be lynching black folk again," the other woman interjects.
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"Girl, white Democrats will be lynching black folk again," a second woman replies.
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Since May, WhatsApp misinformation has contributed to 17 different lynching incidents across India.
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Trump's actions & words are consistent w/those who incited lynching, not its victims.
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Trump's lynching comment was immediately condemned by critics as unbecoming of a president.
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And it ought to highlight how black women organized against rape and lynching.
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"Impeachment is not 'lynching,' it is part of our Constitution," Biden tweeted Tuesday.
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"All Republicans must remember what they are witnessing here — a lynching," he added.
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Lynching is wrong for all people despite the reason for targeting a victim.
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A spokeswoman for Benedict College declined to comment on the president's lynching comment.
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"I believe all this is part of a political lynching," he told Reuters.
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" Mr. Cosby's other publicist, Andrew Wyatt, added that "this became a public lynching.
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It was almost like a lynching, you know — guilty and lock her up.
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His books include Lynching in the West: 1850-1935 (Duke) and Profiled (LACMA).
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The vicious attack on actor Jussie Smollett was an attempted modern-day lynching.
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" In August, Reagan denounced the Watergate hearings as a "lynching" and "witch hunt.
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He called the attack a "modern day lynching" when the news broke. pic.twitter.
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Lynching in adjacent counties was in the memory of her parents and grandparents.
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So, the lynching, the massacres of Muslims were all airbrushed out of the
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When we talk about lynching, the left promoted that back in the day.
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"Girl, white Democrats will be lynching black folk again," the other woman responds.
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Ida B. Wells, the anti-lynching activist, and the photographer Diane Arbus, above.
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The white supremacists of the lynching era used similar language to describe blacks.
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He grew in a white family in segregated Arkansas during the lynching era.
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The Senate finally passed a law making lynching a federal crime -- last year.
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Those who were killed by lynching mobs – no one was a child kidnapper.
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Every single United States county where a lynching has occurred is documented here.
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Nearly 200 anti-lynching bills were introduced in Congress from 1882 to 1986.
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"This is a lynching in every sense," Mr. Graham told reporters on Tuesday.
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Lynching is a reprehensible stain on this nation's history, as is this President.
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This was only five years after Emmett Till's lynching in Mississippi, Young says.
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Leonidas C. Dyer (R-Mo.), that would have made lynching a federal crime.
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Aatish Taseer NEW DELHI — A lynching is much more than just a murder.
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In the United States, the lynching of blacks was once a common practice.
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This case is considered by some to be about a modern-day lynching.
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Obviously lot of people have been writing about this, about murders and lynching.
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Lynching was an effort to silence and maintain control by any means necessary.
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House Majority Whip Jim ClyburnJames (Jim) Enos ClyburnThune calls Trump remarks on lynching 'inappropriate' Scarborough: Pence 'would be president by noon' if GOP senators could cast secret ballot Graham backs Trump: 'This is a lynching in every sense' MORE (D-S.
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It's striking to find no explicit photographs — no horror images, for instance, of police handcuffs on lynching victims' wrists — at The Legacy of Lynching, a choice the curators made to approach the topic respectfully, according to the Brooklyn Museum website.
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" When the House Judiciary Committee advanced the anti-lynching measure last year, Rush said in a statement, "Lynching has never been classified as a federal crime, despite many attempts by various presidents and legislators, but today we are one step closer.
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Kamala HarrisKamala Devi HarrisBiden looks to shore up lead in S.C. House passes historic legislation to make lynching a federal hate crime This week: House to vote on legislation to make lynching a federal hate crime MORE's (D-Calif.) presidential bid.
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He described how a lynching in India occurred via hoax messages sent over WhatsApp.
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It's a generally a good idea to avoid depictions of lynching in campaign ads.
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Soil samples from lynching sites across the country are displayed at the Legacy Museum.
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We hear little of the woman who linked economic exploitation, lynching and sexual violence.
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How dare the president compare a lawful constitutional process to mob violence and lynching.
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"Lynching is a reprehensible stain on this nation's history, as is this President," Sen.
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Conservatives are bothered by perceived Democratic hypocrisy on the usage of the term "lynching".
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Lynching referred to the same base act in 1998 that it refers to now.
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The last known lynching in Clarke County, Mississippi, was only about 21960 years ago.
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Stone, who has pleaded not guilty, called his case a "lynching" perpetuated by Mueller.
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It's a place that represents bondage, lynching, and the humiliation of second-class citizenship.
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A Kentucky Democrat put in ad in a publication appearing to depict a lynching.
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I don't want my tax dollars funding someone who would make jokes about lynching.
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His tweet supporting the lynching of journalists was the last straw for this voter.
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Harris initially condemned the reported attack as a "modern day lynching" when it happened. .
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Until the Senate vote on Wednesday, anti-lynching legislation had failed nearly 200 times.
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Stories of lynching and its history have played a significant role in this history.
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She brought the noose, she said, to symbolize the past lynching of her ancestors.
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The lynching of Emmett Till did help launch the civil-rights movement in America.
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Cory Booker (D-NJ) and Tim Scott (R-SC) making lynching a federal crime.
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In late December, he issued an emergency decree that effectively legalizes politically-motivated lynching.
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The creators of the group scheduled a a "daily lynching" through the app's calendar.
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Always in Season is a haunting probe into the horrors of lynching in America.
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When the court announced the June 20.4 trial date, only the lynching charge remained.
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President Donald Trump called House Democrats' impeachment inquiry into him "a lynching" on Tuesday.
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And from my standpoint, as a black American, it is a high-tech lynching.
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In no other post-slavery society did lynching emerge as a festive public ritual.
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The group, which included Ms. Walker, brought soil from the site of the lynching.
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Some explicitly sanctioned lynching, even going so far as to announce killings in advance.
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"What happened to the parties who did the lynching?" a Wisconsin senator asked him.
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You can't get any more horrific than lynching people on the black church grounds.
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Local activists still re-enact the lynching, to keep it in the public eye.
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"Mob violence & public lynching is outside the parameters of our values & religion," he wrote.
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The legislation would amend federal civil rights law to explicitly include provisions on lynching.
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The optics of lynching were rooted in both seeing, and not seeing, black life.
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KABUL, Afghanistan — The teenage girl had barely survived an attempted mob lynching in Kabul.
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"Activists are already threatening me with a public lynching," Polanski said in a statement.
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We are closer than we have ever been in making lynching a federal crime.
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She says what's even more disturbing is Trump using the word "lynching" on purpose.
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"This is a call for lynching by a sitting State Representative," Stephen Webber tweeted.
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As such, lynching spectators likely experienced a mindlessness akin to a drug-induced state.
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The number of people executed rises tremendously at the end of the lynching era.
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" "Given the history in our country, I would not compare it to a lynching.
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The episodes portrayed, like that 1979 lynching scene, also seemed to be growing uglier.
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False accusations of rape have been used to justify the lynching of black men.
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"Protection against lynching was the minimum and most basic of Federal responsibilities, and the Senate considered but failed to enact anti-lynching legislation despite repeated requests by civil rights groups, Presidents, and the House of Representatives to do so," the Senate bill notes.
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The resolution declared lynching the "ultimate expression of racism" and accepted responsibility for repeatedly rejecting anti-lynching legislation despite requests from people like Arthur Raper, a sociologist and field secretary for the mostly white Commission on Interracial Cooperation, which investigated Higginbotham's killing.
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When the anti-lynching campaigner — and soon-to-be suffragist — Ida B. Wells was run out of the South in 1892 for writing candidly about lynch mobs, Garnet and her friends joined together in yet another organization to promote Wells's anti-lynching work.
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She shone a spotlight on how lynching served as a tool to oppress African Americans.
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A few anti-lynching laws were passed to intervene on vigilante violence against African Americans.
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But the persistence of lynching goes beyond the private sector and stretches into the state.
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If Callaway's lynching remained a mystery all these years, what else don't they know about?
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Mississippi has a history of lynching African-Americans and Hyde-Smith's opponent, Espy, is black.
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"This became a public lynching," Cosby's spokesman, Andrew Wyatt, said on ABC's Good Morning America.
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" Justice Clarence Thomas famously decried his Supreme Court confirmation process as a "high-tech lynching.
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Left: The name of each lynching victim is accompanied by the date of their death.
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The association to lynching is both present and deflected, just like every other element here.
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Yet when most Americans remember Wells, they remember her solely as a campaigner against lynching.
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Soon after the lynching, Wofford moved to Lorain, which was an integrated town of industry.
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And few of those responsible for lynching ever faced any legal consequences for their actions.
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The first serious congressional effort to pass anti-lynching legislation began in 1918, when Rep.
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This was the era in which anti-lynching campaigns began and the NAACP was formed.
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In the 1920s, there were several cases of lynching of blacks, Japanese, and Mexican Americans.
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Kentucky has a dark history when it comes to lynching, according to the Courier-Journal.
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It's not just a big mob or lynching or a violent act in an alleyway.
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The first serious congressional effort to pass anti-lynching legislation began in 20143, when Rep.
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Read more: Trump portrayed himself as the ultimate victim by describing impeachment as 'a lynching.
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President Truman, meanwhile, integrated the armed forces and supported fair employment and anti-lynching laws.
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Race/Related To protest police violence, an artist resurrected an old N.A.A.C.P. flag about lynching.
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She also co-sponsored a federal anti-lynching bill that passed the Senate in 2018.
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On Wednesday, Congress added to its accomplishments, adopting legislation to make lynching a federal crime.
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The last thorough national anti-lynching bill was introduced in 1937, and was similarly squashed.
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Young revolutionaries are lynching a woman they believe to be a supporter of the Shah.
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They're also designing an expansive permanent memorial to the lynching victims discovered by their research.
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She described lynching as a "culturally understood" way of depriving due process from black Americans.
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The term "lynching" is associated with the mob murders of black Americans by white people.
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Anyone walking to or from the heart of town would have witnessed the lynching party.
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In Arkansas, a radio ad this week suggests white Democrats might start lynching black men.
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Unlike the youngsters she had seen shooting toy guns, these boys were playacting a lynching.
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She had never heard of the lynching or that a relative had been a victim.
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A personal tragedy led Ida B. Wells-Barnett to a lifetime of anti-lynching activism.
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The NAACP and other groups spent decades urging federal lawmakers to pass anti-lynching laws.
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Another, filled with archival newspaper clips, explores the history of lynching in the United States.
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The lynching of black people was designed to be a spectacle, to draw white mobs.
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It's taken 120 years, but the U.S. government has finally made lynching a federal crime.
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In 2005, senators passed a resolution apologizing for their failure to enact anti-lynching legislation.
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Several black professors have been threatened with lynching, shooting or rape for denouncing white supremacy.
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Meanwhile, lynching, segregation, and disfranchisement created new obstacles for reparations and new harms needing redress.
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Three people were arrested for Mr. Khan's lynching, but only days later, after he died.
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In the teens, the truth-telling had generally revolved around historic events — slavery, lynching, redlining.
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Ottie Lee is a white woman on her way to a lynching in Marvel, Ind.
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John Lewis (D-Ga.) to a memorial and museum commemorating lynching victims in Montgomery, Alabama.
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In this era of perfection, blackface is the moral equivalent of participating in a lynching.
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Lynching wasn't only hanging, and it wasn't only perpetrated by redneck mobs or the KKK.
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The six sites we chose help to illustrate the complexity of lynching, and its pervasiveness.
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J.), Kamala HarrisKamala Devi HarrisBiden looks to shore up lead in S.C. House passes historic legislation to make lynching a federal hate crime This week: House to vote on legislation to make lynching a federal hate crime MORE (D-Calif.) and Tim ScottTimothy (Tim) Eugene ScottGOP casts Sanders as 2020 boogeyman Tim Scott: Sanders would be toughest challenger for Trump House to vote on legislation to make lynching a federal hate crime MORE (R-S.
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Kamala HarrisKamala Devi HarrisBiden looks to shore up lead in S.C. House passes historic legislation to make lynching a federal hate crime This week: House to vote on legislation to make lynching a federal hate crime MORE (D-Calif.) and Cory BookerCory Anthony BookerDemocrats' Obama-to-Sanders shift on charter schooling This week: House to vote on legislation to make lynching a federal hate crime Juan Williams: Black votes matter MORE (D-N.
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Collins says she will oppose controversial Trump court pick The Hill's Morning Report - Presented by Better Medicare Alliance - Diplomat's 'powerful' testimony and 'lynching' attract headlines CNN: Biden likened Clinton impeachment to 'partisan lynching' in 1998 MORE (R-Maine), who is up for reelection next year.
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Adam KinzingerAdam Daniel KinzingerGOP lawmaker condemns Trump over 'human scum' comment CNN: Biden likened Clinton impeachment to 'partisan lynching' in 1998 AOC: Trump comparing impeachment inquiry to a lynching is 'atrocious' MORE (R-Ill.) calling on the president to retract his statement and Sen.
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Only recently have memorials to the national horror of lynching in Montgomery, Alabama, modeled after the Holocaust memorial in Berlin, the National Museum of African American History and Culture in Washington and markers of Emmett Till's lynching in Mississippi (which have been repeatedly vandalized) appeared.
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Over the years, Woodward's beating receded behind more publicized stories like the lynching of Emmett Till.
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Rather, the ad is supposed to symbolically depict the lynching of a system in Spencer County.
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Maybe we could have had anti-lynching laws sooner and leveraged that success to achieve desegregation.
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Anders added that the response to her research on the 1921 lynching reflects backward racial views.
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It has been updated to reflect President Donald Trump's comparison of the impeachment inquiry to lynching.
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The first well-publicized lynching, for example, followed a false story about a planned slave uprising.
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Trump sparked a firestorm in Washington Tuesday when he compared the impeachment investigation to a lynching.
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Later Tuesday morning, Trump compared the impeachment inquiry to a "lynching," prompting immediate blowback from Democrats.
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So did CNN's Brandon Tensley, who ties together Trump's "witch hunt" claims with Tuesday's lynching reference.
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Meantime, Trump referred to the impeachment process to a "lynching," drawing criticism from both parties. 2.
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Trump is not the first to deploy the lynching label to discredit political opponents or processes.
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Vandals destroyed numerous signs remembering the 1955 lynching, mirroring the violence inflicted on the teenager himself.
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A lynching bill that did not explicitly name protected groups would ultimately fail to acknowledge this.
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Democrats condemned President Donald Trump this week for using the word "lynching" to describe his impeachment.
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These included the constant threat of mob violence in the form of lynching; the Plessy vs.
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In a gruesome coda to the incident, pictures and videos from the lynching also went viral.
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Lynching became the transformation of Black people's bodies into centerpieces and collector's items to be disseminated.
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Organizers penned an open letter to the president, asking him to criminalize mob violence and lynching.
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Choksi's lawyer said that a lack of prosecutions in lynching cases is encouraging more mob violence.
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The killing of Holmes and Thurmond, who were both white, was California's last well-publicized lynching.
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Those surprised by these failures of representation should consult the history of anti-lynching legislation. Sens.
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The Dadri lynching, as it came to be called, stirred passionate public debate over religious tolerance.
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The remark, which was caught on video, has sparked controversy due to Mississippi's history of lynching.
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"Girl, white Democrats will be lynching black men again," one unidentified voice says in the ad.
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In the 1890s, journalist Ida B. Wells led a campaign against lynching at considerable personal risk.
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Dyer's measure was meant to be a deterrent by punishing authorities that failed to prevent lynching.
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A memorial to more than 4,000 African-American victims of lynching opened up in Montgomery, Ala.
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Statistically, I think it was a lynching a day for 40 years or something like that.
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Richard Brevard Russell, who opposed numerous efforts to pass civil rights legislation, including bills banning lynching.
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"Earlier in the week, Trump faced bipartisan backlash when he likened the impeachment probe to "lynching.
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The anti-lynching display includes a photograph of the NAACP's "A Man was Lynched Yesterday" banner.
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A century later his lynching was commemorated and a historic marker was erected near the site.
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Perhaps it was the violent history of the state, once the lynching capital of the country.
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He infamously called the proceedings "a high-tech lynching for uppity blacks": It's a national disgrace.
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But in a memorial about lynching they read another way, as a forest of hanging bodies.
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I don't think that was a wonderful thing to do, but it's certainly better than lynching.
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It's hard to imagine the random racial terror from the lynching era ever becoming routine again.
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The only memorial in the United States for lynching victims opened in April, in Montgomery, Ala.
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Another of its bloodcurdling manifestations is the lynching of Muslims suspected of eating or storing beef.
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I looked at lynching photographs again and again, far more than we see in the film.
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A revenge-motivated "lynching" that Republicans needed to treat as a war they needed to win.
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The House of Representatives passed an bill on Wednesday that would make lynching a federal crime.
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He helped win freedom for Soviet Jews and a posthumous pardon in a notorious lynching case.
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A lynching, unlike, say, a terrorist attack, does not depend on maximizing the loss of life.
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His family has called the documentary a "public lynching" and has filed a suit against HBO.
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It was the family's statement, not the Jackson estate, that called the film a "public lynching."
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Michael Jackson's family calls documentary a 'public lynching' His estate has filed a suit against HBO.
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"Yesterday, America was a land of slavery, segregation, lynching and Ku Klux Klan," the cleric said.
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VICE: I imagine some young Americans—especially whites—will struggle to wrap their heads around lynching.
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One thing we learned early on in our research is that there is no "typical" lynching.
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"Yesterday, America was a land of slavery, segregation, lynching and Ku Klux Klan," the cleric says.
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A white crowd gathered, incited by an editorial In the Tulsa Tribune egging on a lynching.
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But the fact so many Americans were murdered through lynching, the fact it was used to as a terror tactic to promote an ideology of hatred, and the fact no federal anti-lynching law exists makes the president's use of the word completely inappropriate at best.
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It includes the works made by white artists Paul Cadmus and John Steuart Curry, who drew and painted blacks struggling against white mobs for the 1935 exhibition An Art Commentary on Lynching, organized at the behest of the NAACP in support of its anti-lynching campaign.
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One where good times meant gathering for the communal lynching or hosing protesters fighting for equal rights.
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There was no mob, no lynching, and indeed, no provable link to anything reported in the news.
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Thinking about the sale of this gun, I'm reminded of whites collecting souvenirs after lynching black people.
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Therefore, in contrast to lynching photography, today's violent footage does not circulate simply to celebrate white domination.
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Early on, "Always in Season" mentions an especially horrendous chapter in American history: the Moore's Ford lynching.
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" "The public was calling for a lynching," he continues, "and, you know, I can't let that happen.
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GRAPHIC WARNING: This video depicts violence from the Rainpada lynching incident, which some viewers may find disturbing.
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WhatsApp, which is wholly owned by Facebook, has taken a more forthright approach to the lynching problem.
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The day after the lynching, authorities also turned off internet access in the area for 1203 hours.
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Each sample of soil has a date of a lynching and the name of the person lynched.
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" "For three generations in South Carolina, we have understood the evil history of lynching in our state.
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President, HOW DARE YOU compare impeachment to lynching (the mob murdering and racist terrorizing of Black people)?
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The morning after the wedding, they discover a sketch of a lynching with the headline "niggers out".
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" He said Trump's "lynching" claim illustrated this point -- the outrageous use of language stirred a "meta-conversation.
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EJI found 1 percent of all lynching perpetrators were convicted of a crime (for lynchings after 1900).
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Now, both the flag and the lynching have been edited out of the image, according to CNN.
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It was spotless, clean, but I think finally the lynching and misinformation have done away with that.
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Jackson's estate called the documentary a "public lynching" and has filed a $100 million lawsuit against HBO.
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The initiative is seeking to have a memorial stone placed at every lynching site in the country.
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That meant covering up the killings of Civil Rights activists, before that [it was] covering up lynching.
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Jackson's estate is suing HBO over the documentary, calling it a "public lynching," according to BuzzFeed News.
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"To me, this is modern-day lynching," said another Democrat, State Representative Kimberly Gardner of St. Louis.
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The instigator of this media lynching is seeking her quarter of an hour of fame through slander.
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Courageous heroes such as lynching chronicler Ida B. Wells were at first told they could not participate.
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An Occupy Oakland activist was almost charged with lynching herself for yelling "help" during an encampment raid.
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It's a haunting absence, one that resists the spectacle that has historically conferred lynching with such power.
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In a landmark move, The Montgomery Advertiser recently apologized for its role in justifying and promoting lynching.
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Millions of black family members were killed during slavery and the lynching era, from 1877 to 1950.
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He has been mostly silent on sectarian violence, including the lynching of Muslims and lower-caste Hindus.
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Part of the repercussions, the residue, of lynching is that you have economic loss for black people.
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But lynching did not end with slavery; it was also a response to the end of slavery.
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The melody of that mournful song, an anti-lynching protest, evaporated into the noise of the fair.
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I haven't heard anyone joking about lynching or take an "anti-racemixing" stance in a few months.
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The House on Wednesday overwhelmingly passed historic legislation that would classify lynching as a federal hate crime.
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A lynching is a majority's way of telling a minority population that the law cannot protect it.
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Police have detained eight people in connection with the lynching in the rural Khunti district, he added.
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Then there is the ultimate inflammatory comparison: Mr Trump says he is the victim of a "lynching".
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The mainstream media's "willingness" to circulate images of black people in distress is equated with public lynching.
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Collins says she will oppose controversial Trump court pick The Hill's Morning Report - Presented by Better Medicare Alliance - Diplomat's 'powerful' testimony and 'lynching' attract headlines CNN: Biden likened Clinton impeachment to 'partisan lynching' in 1998 MORE (R-Maine) has come out against a controversial Trump judicial pick Steven Menashi.
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The novel would have us believe that a woman joined by unsympathetic whites at an anti-lynching vigil in 1930s Indiana would offer her truck to young black men — and that the men would still trust her and accept the offer, under the threat of a lynching happening nearby.
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"I want to make it clear that mob lynching is a crime, no matter the motive," Modi said.
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When lynching was at its height, mobs did not limit their attacks to men — women were lynched too.
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"Hey @Twitter this white supremacist @DaDUTCHMAN5 is threatening me with lynching b/c I am Muslim," he said.
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It's this theme of communal racial terrorism that connects the 1946 lynching to the present -- that stalks it.
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"Those who are involved in the lynching perceive themselves as having the right to do this," she says.
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" Biden, however, said in 1998 the impeachment of President Bill Clinton could be seen as a "partisan lynching.
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Mr. President, HOW DARE YOU compare impeachment to lynching (the mob murdering and racist terrorizing of Black people)?
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On Tuesday, Trump compared his impeachment process to a "lynching," language Senate Republicans did not want to defend.
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It was a reference to Mr. Trump's tweet this week likening the Democrats' impeachment inquiry to a lynching.
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When President Donald Trump described the impeachment battle against him as a "lynching," it generated an understandable outcry.
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Lynching was tolerated and sometimes abetted by local officials, and watched by crowds of thousands for sheer entertainment.
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This memorial, intentionally or not, reproduces the opportunity for white onlookers to engage in the spectacle of lynching.
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It was founded during a period of widespread lynching in the United States and didn't issue one then.
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Between 22018 and 1930, Florida had the highest per capita lynching rate of any state in the nation.
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Heller said he was representing the Alabama-based Equal Justice Initiative, which had recently opened a lynching museum.
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The Senate unanimously passed a bill Thursday that would make lynching a federal crime, the Washington Post reports.
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That same year, a lynching forced black journalist Ida B. Wells to flee her home town of Memphis.
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Less than a week after the midterms, she made some apparently pro-lynching comments at a campaign event.
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Any who returned to collect their belongings were met with threats of lynching, the local news media reported.
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After that report, Mr. Stevenson launched a project to collect soil from unmarked lynching sites around the country.
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For one, the National Park Service is considering designating sites related to Till's lynching as national park areas.
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Richards was initially charged with inciting a riot, child endangerment, delaying and obstructing peace officers, and felony lynching.
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In 1998, Biden suggested that Clinton's impeachment was a "partisan lynching" in an interview with CNN's Wolf Blitzer.
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Wells had tried for years, mostly unsuccessfully, to turn the Northern white press against the brutality of lynching.
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"Strange Fruit," he said, invoking one of Billie Holiday's trademark songs, about the frequent image of lynching victims.
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Lynching in America represented an entire extrajudicial system that operated parallel to the law, while outside the law.
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After all, what are we to make of the phrase, "LOW-TECH LYNCHING" or "NEGRO" next to "NIGGA"?
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Perhaps the most surprising narrative in "Always in Season" deals with the concept of a lynching re-enactment.
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They hanged his body from a tree in a mixed-race neighborhood: a lynching, in the nineteen-eighties.
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During slavery, one of the main purposes of lynching was to deter the enslaved from escaping to freedom.
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On Thursday night, the city's current police chief issued a rare apology for a lynching in the South.
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By comparison, the great American crime of slavery, the laceration and lynching of black bodies, was scarcely memorialized.
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" When both players, among others, criticized the decision, the newspaper said it was the victim of a "lynching.
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It was an emotional visit to a place that seemed to have erased the Hartfield lynching from memory.
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Ida B. Wells put her life on the line when she reported on the Southern horrors of lynching.
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"The vicious attack on actor Jussie Smollett was an attempted modern-day lynching," he tweeted at the time.
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In that era, the Klan was responsible for castrations, lynching and the bombing and burning of countless buildings.
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Stevenson became convinced that lynching had a historical and a contemporary relevance that needed to be more visible.
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"Given the history of this in our country, I would not compare it to a lynching," he said.
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"To me, a noose is lynching," said Taylor Dumpson, the woman who became the university's student government president.
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Later that same day, the Confederate flag was gone and the mural was repainted to scrap the lynching.
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A series of tall, signboardlike plaques in the galleries list the names of thousands of black lynching victims.
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Not all racism looks like the lynching of Henry Smith in 1893 in front of 10,000 jeering onlookers.
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Adam KinzingerAdam Daniel KinzingerGOP lawmaker condemns Trump over 'human scum' comment CNN: Biden likened Clinton impeachment to 'partisan lynching' in 1998 AOC: Trump comparing impeachment inquiry to a lynching is 'atrocious' MORE (R-Ill.) blasted the remarks, calling on the president to disavow his comments due to the historical connotation.
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"Southern white federal officeholders repeatedly blocked anti-lynching legislation over the decades of the early 20th century, asserting that a federal role in thwarting lynching would violate 'state's rights,'" Michael Pfeifer, a history professor at John Jay College of Criminal Justice in New York, told the Los Angeles Times recently.
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Kamala HarrisKamala Devi HarrisBiden looks to shore up lead in S.C. House passes historic legislation to make lynching a federal hate crime This week: House to vote on legislation to make lynching a federal hate crime MORE (D-Calif.), one of the sponsors of the Senate bill, said in a statement.
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Kamala HarrisKamala Devi HarrisBiden looks to shore up lead in S.C. House passes historic legislation to make lynching a federal hate crime This week: House to vote on legislation to make lynching a federal hate crime MORE (D-Calif.), one of the sponsors of the Senate bill, said in a statement.
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Throughout the first half of the 20th century, civil rights activists fought to pass a federal anti-lynching law.
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At the last turn of the century, black-authored lynching plays were part of that tradition for African Americans.
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The outraged performance was a calculation not unlike the "high-tech lynching" now-Justice Clarence Thomas decried in 1991.
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Even as threats of lynching reach his office, Green said, his cry for Trump's impeachment will only grow louder.
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She knew of the castration in 1941 and the lynching in 1921, but didn't know any of McNeeley's relatives.
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Joe Biden of Delaware had called Clinton's impeachment proceedings a "partisan lynching" during an October 1998 appearance on CNN.
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Adam Kinzinger of Illinois, who like Trump is a Republican, called out the president for using the term lynching.
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In the hours after Graham compared investigating political corruption to a 'lynching,' contributions to support Jaime started pouring in.
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Our country has a dark shameful history with lynching, and to even think about making this comparison is abhorrent.
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Our country has a dark, shameful history with lynching, and to even think about making this comparison is abhorrent.
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He said he didn't know that, despite hundreds of attempts, lynching had actually not been banned by federal law.
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It added that government officials have conveyed "deep disapproval" about the recent incidents of lynching to WhatsApp's senior management.
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He also criticized Trump's lynching comment, though -- reflecting his political tightrope -- he blasted the Democratic process in the House.
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CNN's Daniel Dale noted that this was the first time that Trump has used the word "lynching" as president.
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The fans' lawyer, Emmanuel Ludot, likened the men's allegations to a "genuine lynching" of Jackson, who died in 2009.
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The bold project of memorializing the uncountable number of Black lynching victims in the US is a hefty task.
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Justin Fairfax (D) on Sunday compared himself to victims of lynching amid accusations that he sexually assaulted two women.
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One mystery solved, however: Reeves doesn't need the wheelchair, so lynching Crawford is now a more plausible solo job.
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Whether on lynching, or on background checks, or on government shutdowns, why do we face these defects in representation?
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Last month, senators Cory Booker, Kamala Harris, and Tim Scott introduced legislation to make lynching a federal hate crime.
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The museum frames certain things — lynching photographs, for example — within red lines, alerting viewers to their emotionally loaded content.
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Congress has tried but failed to pass anti-lynching legislation roughly 85033 times since 1918, according to Harris's office.
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Between 1882 to 1986 there have been 200 failed attempts to enact federal anti-lynching legislation, according to Harris.
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In July 1922, the NAACP lobbied for a federal anti-lynching bill that was ultimately filibustered by the Senate.
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The backdrop: There were 200 attempts to pass anti-lynching laws between 1882 and 1986, all of which failed.
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They argued the comparison between a constitutional impeachment process and a lynching was both historically inaccurate and deeply offensive.
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A large memorial for lynching victims, the National Memorial for Peace and Justice, opened in April, in Montgomery, Ala.
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Lynching in America: Confronting the Legacy of Racial Terror is available online through the Equal Justice Initiative and Google.
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In the vast majority of lynching cases, though, the suspects escaped punishment, often with the help of state officers.
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Fred Rochelle, 2800, was burned alive in a public spectacle lynching before thousands in Polk County, Florida, in 26.
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Ida B. Wells, a world-class journalist and fervent anti-lynching reformer, was an indefatigable critic of the segregation.
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Congress debated more than 200 anti-lynching bills in the first half of the 20th century without passing any.
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The bill comes nearly 100 years after Leonidas Dyer, a United States representative from Missouri, introduced anti-lynching legislation.
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Aside from the slavery ship and a gruesome look at lynching, most of the museum was hopeful and expansive.
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"In the 20th century, lynching occurred mostly in southern states by white southerners against black southerners," the bill states.
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She was a former slave who took on racism in the Deep South and campaigned for anti-lynching legislation.
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This report adds to "Lynching in America," a sweeping study of racial terror released by the organization last year.
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Like all forms of theater, a lynching depends on what is left unsaid; it creates a mood, an atmosphere.
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He likened his coming impeachment to an "attempted coup," an "election-nullification scheme" and a "lynching," among other things.
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The song served as the soundtrack to the doctored video of the lynching that was part of the trial.
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Pack makes no attempt, for example, to present arguments that might counterbalance the claim of a lynching, however metaphorical.
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And there's still incredible overlap between places that had lynching and places that continue to use the death penalty.
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The group has begun construction of a memorial to lynching victims in Montgomery, which could open by March 2018.
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" The comparison came after Trump caused a furor earlier this week by comparing the impeachment inquiry to a "lynching.
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" Trump received pushback from both sides of the aisle over calling the constitutionally authorized process of impeachment a "lynching.
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And alongside of that, the work Bryan Stevenson is doing with the legacy of slavery and lynching in America.
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The rope and chain evoke the history of lynching and slavery, but not once does Smith spell anything out.
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Video of Hyde-Smith's lynching remarks was released on social media last weekend, causing national uproar against the senator.
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To call the allegations against either of them lynching is not only inaccurate, but dishonors a very real history.
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Of black lynching victims between 1880 and 1930, almost 25% were accused of sexual assault and nearly 30% were accused of murder, according to research cited by the Equal Justice Initiative, or EJI, which in 18823 opened the National Memorial for Peace and Justice, a monument to lynching victims in Montgomery, Alabama.
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Karen BassKaren Ruth BassCNN: Biden likened Clinton impeachment to 'partisan lynching' in 1998 White House spokesman: Trump didn't mean to compare his experience with 'darkest moments' in US history The Hill's 12:85033 Report: Trump faces backlash for comparing impeachment to 'lynching' MORE (D-Calif.), who chairs the Congressional Black Caucus, tweeted.
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Read more: Joe Biden suggested Bill Clinton's impeachment was a 'partisan lynching' in 1998Almost two decades later, Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas used the term during his confirmation hearings in 1991, assailing the proceedings as "a high-tech lynching" as lawmakers dug through allegations of sexual misconduct against him from Anita Hill.
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Through conversations with African-American elders he learned the facts of the lynching -- little of which have changed since 1940.
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It's a modern-day murder, lynching, or whatever he did to them, and they've disappeared and nobody seems to care.
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We will vigorously resist this attempted public lynching of a Black man who has made extraordinary contributions to our culture.
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Each interview was coded with key words according to the alleged crime, such as killing, rape, sexual violence and lynching.
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"Given the history in our country, I would not compare this to a lynching," Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell said.
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Ted Cruz, R-Texas, said lynching is "obviously a word with significant historical freight," according to a reporter from Politico.
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The case before the appeals court relates to the mob lynching of two black couples in rural Georgia in 1946.
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Which is why I was not shocked when he condemned the House impeachment inquiry as a "lynching" earlier this week.
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"Impeachment is not 'lynching,' it is part of our Constitution," the former vice president said in a tweet on Tuesday.
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The Washington Post reported Tuesday that at least five House Democrats had invoked lynching during the 1998 Clinton impeachment proceedings.
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"Lynching" raises the temperature dozens of degrees from "hoax" and "witch hunt," his go-to phrases for Robert Mueller's investigation.
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"Lynching is wrong no matter whether someone is white or black, gay or straight, disabled or able-bodied," Staver says.
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The impeachment inquiry Trump faces for requesting foreign governments investigate a political rival is not a lynching — not even close.
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Instead, however, he used his first tweet about lynching to complain that he is being lynched by an impeachment inquiry.
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The lynching memorial, like other parts of the Alabama museum and memorial effort, will also provide an opportunity for reflection.
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"This is a call for lynching by a sitting State Representative," Missouri Democratic Party chairman Stephen Webber wrote on Twitter.
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Every lynching victim, every slaughtered dissident, every rape victim and PTSD-cowed citizen has suffered for a concrete scientific untruth.
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One of the most shocking things I observed at the Legacy Museum was the soil collection from numerous lynching sites.
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"There's a public lynching by the executive branch and the U.S. embassy," Matias told crowds of reporters earlier on Tuesday.
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To begin, we can teach the dark history of lynching in this country -- both in the classroom and at home.
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Unfortunately, Mr Duterte's love of lynching and his propensity to slander the mothers of foreign dignitaries are making investors nervous.
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They offer us an account of the lynching in which the racism of 1955 lingers still in the 21st century.
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The history of lynching continues to fuel controversies even now, most recently emerging in Mississippi's Senate race, when incumbent Sen.
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" While other GOP senators scrambled to distance themselves from Trump's remarks, Graham declared, "This is a lynching in every sense.
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Kaitlyn Greenidge When I was in graduate school, I remember a fellow writer bringing to a workshop a lynching scene.
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In retrospect, they suffered a modern version of a lynching, and Trump played a part in whipping up the crowds.
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Leonidas C. Dyer of Missouri became the first member of Congress to introduce an anti-lynching legislation bill in 1918.
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My understanding of lynching was that it was something that happened in the woods with kind of, very rural people.
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"Lynching is a dark, despicable part of our history, and we must acknowledge that, lest we repeat it," said Harris.
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When she wrote a scathing account of the lynching of three successful Black businessmen, white mobs destroyed her printing press.
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Seventeen years before Higginbotham died, for example, a lynching party dragged another black man, Nelse Patton, from the Oxford jail.
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Since the attack on Brown occurred late Saturday night, it was not even in local news until after the lynching.
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Having fled her hometown to escape threats of her own lynching, Wells used the press to make her moral arguments.
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The news spread, and a crowd of 3,363 turned up to witness his lynching (including students of Central High School).
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The Senate on Wednesday unanimously passed a bill that would, for the first time, explicitly make lynching a federal crime.
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Congress has tried and failed some 200 times to pass similar anti-lynching legislation since 1882, according to the bill.
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In a disturbing trend, desperate and frightened communities increasingly seek at least the illusion of security by lynching suspected criminals.
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That evening, crowds gathered at the courthouse downtown, talking of lynching and demanding that the police hand the man over.
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The United States Senate's three black members introduced a bill on Friday that would make lynching a federal hate crime.
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In lynching photos, it was common to see young white boys as they were initiated into this system of control.
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As monuments went up, so did the bodies of black men, women and children during a long rash of lynching.
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The measure, as it was originally introduced, specifies that any offense involving lynching constitutes a hate crime under federal law.
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They are arguing that instead, American Dirt has done the opposite of what Greenidge applauded that lynching scene for accomplishing.
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The horror of these crimes still weighs heavily on black communities in the South, where lynching memories are often vivid.
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The largest mass lynching in US history took place in New Orleans in 1891, when 11 Italian-Americans were hanged.
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Ms. Irvine came across the name of a relative in a book that Ms. Branan had published about the lynching.
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As the statue was lifted off the pedestal, secured only by cords and rope, it looked eerily like a lynching.
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He fought back tears as he told them how the trees masked the scent of the bodies of lynching victims.
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Midway through this pulsating anti-epic, Huck stands on a lynching platform, rope around neck, on a false murder charge.
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History has also shown us that lynching and other forms of vigilantism were leveled at blacks who attempted to vote.
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The National Memorial for Peace and Justice opened in Montgomery, Alabama recently to showcase the extent and horror of lynching.
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Police are investigating a white woman who yelled the N-word and said she was pro-lynching at a CVS.
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Ida B. Wells was a journalist and activist whose writings and activism were centered around anti-lynching in the South.
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There will be eight hundred and one columns, one for each county and state in which a lynching took place.
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Hannah Ayers: The six states we filmed in represent a snapshot of the long and geographically varied history of lynching.
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Lynching photographs showed our mangled, disfigured bodies as constant reminders of what was in store for an uppity African American.
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Karen BassKaren Ruth BassCNN: Biden likened Clinton impeachment to 'partisan lynching' in 1998 White House spokesman: Trump didn't mean to compare his experience with 'darkest moments' in US history The Hill's 12:30 Report: Trump faces backlash for comparing impeachment to 'lynching' MORE (D-Calif.), head of the Congressional Black Caucus, said Tuesday morning.
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Others who have dropped out, like Kamala HarrisKamala Devi HarrisBiden looks to shore up lead in S.C. House passes historic legislation to make lynching a federal hate crime This week: House to vote on legislation to make lynching a federal hate crime MORE, could have been acceptable but are out of the picture now.
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Because lynching photos circulated in a society that constantly depicted nonwhites as noncitizens, the images were interpreted according to that logic.
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We'll never erase the pain and trauma of lynching, and to invoke that torture to whitewash your own corruption is disgraceful.
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By comparing his current situation to lynching, Trump is engaging in both the weaponizing of race and his sense of victimhood.
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A night of lynching in Los Angeles in 20183 saw 10 percent of that city's Chinese population at the time killed.
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Leading right-wing writers like H.L. Mencken and Albert Jay Nock decried lynching and saw the South as a shameful backwater.
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Trump was one of the most vocal New Yorkers calling for their heads, leading what amounted to a modern-day lynching.
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Al Green confirmed Monday that officials are investigating threats of lynching he's received since he called for President Donald Trump's impeachment.
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Kamala Harris, who both recently launched 2020 presidential campaigns, each called the alleged attack an "attempted modern-day lynching" on Twitter.
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Niebuhr may not have spoken out against lynching and other forms of racism later on because of another reason, Lemert said.
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Blacks looking at the images of lynching victims took heart from Jesus' suffering on the cross and his resurrection, Cone said.
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ET. Civil rights groups, including the NAACP, called the "public hanging" comment deeply inappropriate given Mississippi's history of lynching African-Americans.
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"It's a travesty that despite repeated attempts to do so, Congress still hasn't put anti-lynching legislation on the books," Sen.
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Would he take up arms against an intransigent and oppressive southern regime of Jim Crow, lynching and economic marginalization of blacks?
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NPR reports that the memorial contains 800 of the blocks, which correspond to each county where at least one lynching occurred.
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The threat of lynching was a tool used to intimidate and corral black behavior and mobility in social and political situations.
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Politico congressional reporter Burgess Everett and NBC reporter Frank Thorp asked several GOP Senators for their reactions on the lynching comparison.
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That many African-Americans at the end of the 20th century had a family story that included a lynching amazed me.
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And the Brooklyn Museum organized its recent show, "The Legacy of Lynching: Confronting Racial Terror in America," in just five weeks.
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Some Southern newspapers came out against lynching not on moral grounds but because the practice imperiled the region's economy and image.
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The ones who were allegedly involved in the lynching passed a long time ago, but their relations are still in Arlington.
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Thomas's lynching statement was remarkable, considering the metaphor was being used to discredit allegations made by Hill, who is also black.
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During a similar siege of Tikrit last year, Reuters documented the lynching of an Islamic State fighter by Iraqi federal police.
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And the white supremacists of the lynching era were actually starting to be replaced -- at least briefly -- on a political level.
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The N.A.A.C.P., since its founding in 1909, led anti-lynching campaigns in the United States among its many civil rights crusades.
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Celebrity preachers swarmed Mr. Zahra's rented home to meet with his widow, Siti Zubaidah, 25, and denounced lynching as un-Islamic.
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I think it's really important that people understand that there was a lot of cover-up and denial, historically, around lynching.
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Rowland was under the threat of lynching for the alleged attack, facing vigilante justice that was too common in the city.
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Blasphemy carries the death penalty in Pakistan, and accusations often lead to lynching and other forms of violence against those accused.
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The LAPD is investigating what it's calling a hate incident involving the woman, who yelled racist threats about lynching black people.
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" For his part, Thomas categorically denied Hill's claims and called the proceeding "a circus" as well as a "high-tech lynching.
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Especially in this case, where the mob mentality is for lynching, the police feel they have people's support for this act.
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Because repetition strengthens thought patterns, lynching photos and even news accounts would have further dehumanized black Americans in numerous white eyes.
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The staffers at E.J.I., in addition to their legal duties, attempted to identify every lynching that took place in twelve states.
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And while white supremacy was not as brutal in Virginia as it was in the Deep South, lynching did happen here.
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You've heard of Billie Holiday, the legendary jazz singer whose haunting performance of "Strange Fruit" described lynching in agonizing, unforgettable language.
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South Carolina Democrats are incensed over President Donald Trump's use of the word "lynching" to describe the impeachment inquiry against him.
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Wallace and Dillard, his freshman teammate, were inundated with racial epithets and threats of lynching, mainly by Mississippi State football players.
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Lynching photographs were intended to code black bodies as criminal, beatable, killable, and to code white bodies as purveyors of justice.
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The decades after the end of the war would see a wave of lynching, imprisonment, and Jim Crow laws take root.
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Given the widespread practice of lynching—which was not just a Southern thing—how did you decide where, geographically, to film?
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Adam KinzingerAdam Daniel KinzingerGOP lawmaker condemns Trump over 'human scum' comment CNN: Biden likened Clinton impeachment to 'partisan lynching' in 1998 AOC: Trump comparing impeachment inquiry to a lynching is 'atrocious' MORE (R-Ill.), who has been vocally critical of Trump's moves in Syria, rebuked Trump for using the term and called on him to immediately retract it.
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Bobby RushBobby Lee Rush2202 Cent meets with Pelosi, lawmakers on Capitol Hill Biden apologizes for calling Clinton impeachment a 'partisan lynching' AOC: Trump comparing impeachment inquiry to a lynching is 'atrocious' MORE (D-Ill.) also tweeted a photo with the rapper, lauding him for his TV series "Power," of which he is the executive producer and star.
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On Wednesday, the Senate unanimously passed the Justice for Victims of Lynching Act of 24, a bill that classifies lynching — defined in the bill as an act that "willfully cause bodily injury to any other person, because of the actual or perceived race, color, religion, or national origin of any person" — as a federal hate crime.
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The city that claims to have been built on a religious foundation, where a young pharmacist invented the Dr. Pepper formula, is also the same place where Branch Davidian leader David Koresh found his comfort and established his doomsday cult, and also the site of a 1916 lynching that led in part to the first federal anti-lynching law.
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The cause was later taken up by the N.A.A.C.P., which produced a report on lynching in 1919, and by members of Congress, including Representative Leonidas C. Dyer, who sponsored an anti-lynching bill that passed the House in 1922; and Robert F. Wagner and Edward P. Costigan, who introduced another version in the Senate in 1934.
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The cause was later taken up by the N.A.A.C.P., which produced a report on lynching in 1919, and by members of Congress, including Representative Leonidas C. Dyer, who sponsored an anti-lynching bill that passed the House in 1922; and Robert F. Wagner and Edward P. Costigan, who introduced another version in the Senate in 1934.
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"Make no mistake: this is a modern-day lynching," he said in a telephone interview from the Warren County jail in Missouri.
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You just need to thumb back less than 50 years through your American history books to find lynching as a common practice.
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Sessions and allies like Cruz repeatedly asserted that Sessions had a key role in prosecuting a lynching by the KKK in Alabama.
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And I thought there were several Republicans, including Louie Gohmert, I will say, went way overboard, it felt like a public lynching.
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At the turn into the 20th century, even without such technology, it was fairly common to stumble upon pictures of lynching victims.
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These photographs were taken by people who were safe at the lynching and did not question the practice enough to disrupt it.
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Pressed on whether he truly believes lynching would return to the mainstream if a Democrat defeats Hill, Robinson said it was possible.
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That it took the lynching of a white man to make it happen is the type of counterintuitive twist the show savors.
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Biden was one of at least five Democrats to refer to Clinton's impeachment inquiry as a "lynching," a Washington Post investigation found.
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The White House spokesman sidestepped questions from reporters about whether he would condemn the word "lynching," or whether he agreed with Sen.
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The term "lynching" is associated with extrajudicial mob killings of African Americans, which occurred frequently in the South following the Civil War.
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When most Americans imagine lynching, they envision the tortured and mutilated body of a black man accused of raping a white woman.
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Trump previously retweeted a statement during the 2016 election referring to his treatment by journalists as a "disgusting lynching" in September 2015.
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A new website, called Monroe Work Today, is bringing the harrowing history of lynching in the United States out of the shadows.
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" Trump's appearance at the college Friday came days after he faced bipartisan criticism for comparing House Democrats' impeachment inquiry to a "lynching.
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So too, the lynching of black men and women was often ignored or even actively encouraged by our leaders and their laws.
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Skakel s cousin, Robert F. Kennedy, Jr., has written a book about the case called Media Lynching: The Persecution of Michael Skakel.
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I visited the National Memorial for Peace and Justice in Montgomery, Alabama, where lynching victims are honored, and searched for his name.
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One of the ways they did this, aside from keeping physical pieces of victims' bodies, was commemorating the occasion with lynching photos.
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America was newly alerted to the brutality of lynchings in part because of a photographer who documented the lynching of Jesse Washington.
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The only way to do that was to really study the history of lynching, terrorism, and crime and punishment in this country.
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"This is systemic: the killing and lynching and brutality against black people is woven into the fabric of this society," Scott said.
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Jackson's family has condemned the documentary, calling it a "public lynching," and his estate has filed a $100 million lawsuit against HBO.
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The first $1 million came in 2016, and the second $1 million comes in tandem with the launch of Lynching in America.
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Clinton pushed for the bombing of Libya, and publicly laughed about the lynching of Muammar Gaddafi as Libya descended into bloody chaos.
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Front page news The nation's first lynching memorial is open, and an Alabama newspaper found a stunning way to mark the occasion.
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Booker said that "lynching is not a relic of the past," pointing to the attack on "Empire" actor Jussie Smollett in Chicago.
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Jackson's family has called the documentary and news coverage of the accusations a "public lynching" and said he was "100 percent innocent".
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Sen. Lindsey Graham of South Carolina defended President Donald Trump tweeting that facing an impeachment inquiry is "a lynching" on Tuesday morning.
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No one was prosecuted, and Mr. Dell, as with roughly a dozen other lynching victims in the city's history, was essentially unacknowledged.
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In the 1930s, California's anti-lynching law was a sign of progress at a moment when the federal governmental failed to intervene.
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Or artists' projects like Ken Gonzales-Day's mapped walking tour of lynching sites in Los Angeles, which reveals the city's hidden history.
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More than 4,000 black people were victims of racial lynching between 1877 and 1950, according to researchers at the Equal Justice Initiative.
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Former Vice President Joe Biden condemned President Donald Trump's use of the term "lynching" to describe the House's impeachment inquiry on Tuesday.
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On April 26, Stevenson's organization will open the country's first memorial to lynching victims, alongside a museum to racial injustice, in Montgomery.
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Grayson asked her to provide an overview of the lynching, and everyone turned to face a beige landline propped on a chair.
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But in the African African-American civil rights community, another place to focus on was to stop the lynching of African-Americans.
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In 2015 I wrote about how the legacy of lynching photos extends into the virality of images of anti-Black violence today.
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In 1929, Coleman Blease, a white supremacist South Carolina senator who openly supported lynching, came up with a solution: criminalizing unauthorized entry.
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"Some of us … mark the beginning of the 'modern civil rights movement' with the lynching of Emmett Till," Dr. McLemore told me.
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Washington (CNN)Lawmakers took a historic vote on Wednesday when the House of Representatives passed legislation to make lynching a federal crime.
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"It's beyond shameful to use the word 'lynching' to describe being held accountable for your actions," wrote former Housing Secretary Julián Castro.
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Heroes such as Qasim Rashid, an immigrant rights lawyer who ran for a Virginia state Senate seat and was threatened with lynching.
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Federal investigators have reopened a decades-old investigation into the lynching of Emmett Till, a black teenager who was killed in Mississippi.
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Some townspeople set a date for his lynching, a public event that the governor of Mississippi claimed he was powerless to prevent.
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The account that best captured the perspective of the sharecroppers came from Ida Wells Barnett, the legendary anti-lynching crusader and journalist.
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It's Part of America's Troubled Cultural Legacy Kendrick Lamar Wins Pulitzer in 'Big Moment for Hip-Hop' A Lynching Memorial Is Opening.
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Halfway through the book, Hunt introduces a second narrator: a black woman named Calla, also caught up in the lynching at Marvel.
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We meet communists and chorines, anonymous women gazing into shop windows, the anti-lynching activist Ida B. Wells as a young woman.
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" The NAACP, the Florida Legislative Black Caucus and other groups denounced the governor's intervention, with one caucus member calling it "a lynching.
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The columns that remain in Montgomery will stand in mute rebuke to the places that refuse to acknowledge their history of lynching.
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Washington (CNN)Two competitors for the 2020 Democratic nomination joined forces Thursday in a renewed effort to pass their anti-lynching legislation.
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As Booker's office noted Thursday, the vote followed more than a century of efforts to outlaw lynching that have failed to pass.
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The black man was arrested, and black World War I veterans raced to the courthouse to defend him and prevent a lynching.
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At the height of the lynching epidemic, in the 1890s, one African American was killed somewhere in the South every four days.
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Castile's sister called the incident a "modern day lynching," as she gathered with other grieving relatives outside the hospital where he died.
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Censors took issue with the script's specific references to the South and lynching, and forced Serling to change the setting to New England.
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But in its early days, it actually had an aggressive focus on anti-black violence, working to get anti-lynching bills through Congress.
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But the history of lynching is not history at all—it is a current-day fear that Black queer folks still contend with.
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" The hostess said, "The public lynching has been so severe that I think it's a huge warning call to men in the future.
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Sometimes it's the seemingly little things, like climate action meaning "die-ins," lynching reenactments, or dancing in the street to disrupt public transport.
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It was that yellow-wearing woman, that Sunshine Woman, all the other men called her, who told me and Riv about the lynching.
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Trump's tweet likening impeachment to lynching comes one day after he called on Republicans to more vociferously defend him against the impeachment investigation.
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"We'll never erase the pain and trauma of lynching, and to invoke that torture to whitewash your own corruption is disgraceful," Harris tweeted.
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Trump lashed out at the impeachment inquiry in a tweet early Tuesday, comparing it to a "lynching" – a remark that stirred broad backlash.
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" It also called on the Senate to "remember the history of lynching, to ensure that these tragedies will neither be forgotten nor repeated.
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He compared his own sense of victimization to a "lynching" -- conjuring up the pain of one of the darkest chapters in US history.
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White House deputy press secretary Hogan Gidley argued Tuesday that Trump's use of the word "lynching" to describe the impeachment process was fair.
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" Tom Elliott, founder of the right-leaning aggregation site Grabien, compiled a host of examples of Democrats and others using the term "lynching.
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And this fact, coupled with the evil history of lynching, has led to swift and powerful condemnation of the tweet by lawmakers. Rep.
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Prosecutors presented evidence that King had been an "exalted cyclops" of the white supremacist Confederate Knights of America and regularly drew lynching scenes.
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Plastered on the front of the museum is the 1893 lynching of Henry Smith, which occurred before thousands of participants in Paris, Texas.
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I've written before about how lynching photos extend into present day's shareable media incarnations of anti-Black violence, which are disseminated and desensitizing.
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Police have still not found two men seen pulling on a rope around Woodroffee's neck in a cellphone video recording of the lynching.
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In July, opposition parties in Bihar demanded a separate law against mob lynching in the state, where they say the problem is growing.
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Al Green (D-Texas) has received lynching threats after he called for the impeachment of President Trump on the floor of the House.
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The nooses were a clear reference to lynching, Dumpson said, the bananas a play on the racist trope that African-Americans are monkeys.
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My uncle and my family, Jewish people, produced "Strange Fruit," Billie Holiday's classic song describing the lynching of African-Americans in this country.
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In 1955, at the funeral of 303-year-old Emmett Till, the casket was left open to expose the brutality of his lynching.
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Last week, black students at the University of Pennsylvania were unknowingly added to a GroupMe chat where racial slurs and lynching images proliferated.
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The speech was given in the aftermath of the lynching of a mixed-race boatman and the killing of an abolitionist newspaper editor.
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During the Jim Crow era, Black people were terrorized by lynching — often public and publicized extra legal torture and murder of Black people.
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Maile Hampton, a 20-year-old black woman, was arrested for "lynching" during a rally against police brutality in Sacramento in April 2015.
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His story illustrates one of Stevenson's central claims: that the death penalty, with its disproportionate use against black defendants, descends directly from lynching.
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The Legacy of Lynching: Confronting Racial Terror in America continues at the Brooklyn Museum (200 Eastern Pkwy, Prospect Heights, Brooklyn) through October 8.
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"Falling Red Hat," 2673, takes on mob violence, referencing the infamous lynching and burning of Raymond Gunn in Maryville, Missouri, in January 1931.
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He played a key role in efforts to kill anti-lynching proposals, legislation to kill the poll tax, and other civil rights measures.
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We hope his luridly described murder by lynching proves more than a mere point of departure for Henderson's sprawling Southern Gothic family drama.
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When she launched an anti-lynching campaign that ultimately seeded the NAACP's signature efforts, she was excluded from the leadership of the organization.
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And one of the songs she is best known for, "Strange Fruit," a protest song about lynching, continues to shake the public consciousness.
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Recently, the main opposition party hit out at Modi for "aiding and abetting" the spate of lynching links to rumors spread via WhatsApp.
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"When you hear people say [in these recordings] that they want to murder you, that's what lynching is," Green told me in May.
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"Fake news" campaigns alleging the rape of white women are used to incite and justify the indiscriminate killing and lynching of black men.
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Historically, accounts of the lynching of African-Americans appeared in regional newspapers but seldom made their way into the North-based mainstream press.
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Ms. Branan said that the story of the lynching her family was involved in, along with others, was not just a historical tale.
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But when Clarence Thomas denounced Ms. Hill's testimony as "a high-tech lynching," I knew this nuance had exploded into full-scale war.
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He also supported legislation to crack down on lynching and ban the poll tax, used to prevent blacks in the South from voting.
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Earlier this month, Representative Bobby Rush, Democrat of Illinois, introduced a bill in the House that would make lynching a federal hate crime.
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RE: LYNCHING Vanessa Gregory wrote about the murder of Elwood Higginbotham by a white mob in 1935 and his family's search for answers.
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And then on Friday, Donald Trump is in Huntsville, Alabama, which not coincidentally, it was the heart of the lynching belt, right, okay.
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" Responding to Mr. Linder's point, Mr. Valdez wrote that images of black victims of lynching are indeed "shameful and should never be forgotten.
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Last year brought the opening of a museum dedicated to the legacy of slavery and a memorial honoring thousands of black lynching victims.
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Vardaman's open advocacy of lynching was deemed "exceptional" by the committee — meaning that his behavior was beyond the norm even for his day.
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The Senate passed legislation in 28503 to make lynching a federal hate crime, but it failed to pass the then-GOP controlled House.
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Lynching was commonly used for 256 years during the period of enslavement and for almost 100 years after slavery, well into the 1950s.
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Many whites on both sides of the Mason-Dixon line believed that lynching was necessary to protect white women from predatory black men.
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After Rowland was arrested, a crowd of white men appeared at the jail, intent on gaining entry, dragging him out, and lynching him.
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Lynching victims were largely African American — black men and, less frequently, women accused of violating the racial etiquette of the Jim Crow South.
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Each county in which a lynching took place will be invited to remove its memorial column and display it in its own community.
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One of the main justifications for the use of the death penalty, especially in the South, was that it served to avoid lynching.
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The episode, which became known as the Moore's Ford lynchings, is considered by many to be the last mass lynching in American history.
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"I always sort of take a step back when individuals compare lynching or slavery to anything that happens in modern time," he said.
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One of the most contentious lynching episodes anywhere in the West involved the ancestors of Ms. Valencia, the El Paso teachers' union official.
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She also suggests that such representations cater to a morbid fascination with black death that she associates with lynching as a public spectacle.
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Karen BassKaren Ruth BassCNN: Biden likened Clinton impeachment to 'partisan lynching' in 85033 White House spokesman: Trump didn't mean to compare his experience with 'darkest moments' in US history The Hill's 12:30 Report: Trump faces backlash for comparing impeachment to 'lynching' MORE (D-Calif.), the current chairwoman of the CBC, accused Trump of igniting a "racial bomb" to stir up his base.
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GOP members of Congress felt compelled to defend Trump's comment comparing impeachment to lynching On Tuesday morning, Trump threw a stick of dynamite on the atmosphere on Capitol Hill by comparing the ongoing impeachment proceedings to a lynching in a tweet — once again putting Congressional Republicans in an uncomfortable situation of risking Trump's wrath if there were to fully condemn his remark.
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He said he hoped his apology would "avoid a lynching or public crucifixion for a stupid comment that was not meant in bad faith".
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In 1944, demands to bring back to the two-thirds rule accompanied requests for platform planks supporting "white supremacy" and rejecting anti-lynching legislation.
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Critics have called her remarks tone-deaf or worse given Mississippi's long, ugly history of lynching and suppressing the voter rights of African-Americans.
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They have formed their own lineage and tradition of contemporary lynching, indirectly birthed from not-long-ago traditions of Jim Crow and slaver brutality.
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He looks like an executioner, although the hood and the noose, in the context of an episode about a lynching, has other disturbing associations.
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" 2020 candidate Julián Castro said in a tweet, "It's beyond shameful to use the word 'lynching' to describe being held accountable for your actions.
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From the lynching of Emmett Till to riots over desegregation at Ole Miss, it's a legacy that modern-day Mississippi wants to leave behind.
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Bill Cosby's team on Friday likened his rape conviction to the "public lynching" of an innocent man who fell victim to an unfair trial.
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While his paintings and drawings often have a whimsical quality, they were informed by weighty themes like lynching, illiteracy and the Jim Crow South.
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" Graham, one of Trump's most vocal defenders in the Senate, said earlier Tuesday morning that the impeachment inquiry was "a lynching in every sense.
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Pretty much anyone can attack Trump for his use of the word "lynching" — except politicians who themselves have made the exact same rhetorical point.
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Kamala Harris, Cory Booker, and Tim Scott — the only three black senators in Congress — introduced the Justice for Victims of Lynching Act of 2018.
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New forms of subjugation took the place of slavery: sharecropping; the indentured labour of prisoners; lynching; the suppression of black voters; and racial segregation.
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"The lynching of Muslims, Dalits and other minorities must be stopped immediately," the signatories said in the letter released to the media on Wednesday.
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"People remember mob violence that led to lynching, people remember mob violence that led to people being shot, being grabbed, being mistreated," Clinton said.
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Last week, Mississippi State Representative Karl Oliver called for the lynching of the politicians who support the dismantling of Confederate monuments in neighboring Louisiana.
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In his Facebook post, de Rugy said these and other allegations made by Mediapart were untrue and said they amounted to a "media lynching".
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A Joe's Crab Shack restaurant in Minnesota has come under fire after it used an old photograph of a lynching in its table decor.
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Eventually, truth broke through that consensus, but not before it did immense damage in the form of federal complicity with lynching, segregation, and plunder.
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On its surface, "The Sport of Kings" has enough incident (arson, incest, a lynching, miscegenation, murder) to sustain a 1980s-era television mini-series.
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You drug women, then force them to have sex and have the audacity to call it a public lynching when you're finally held accountable?
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"You're a man of many facets, which have not been shown, because of the media lynching you've been subjected to, Mr. President," she said.
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He hadn't been lynched, and when most people think of lynching in this country, they do not think of people who look like him.
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"Lynching is a dark, despicable part of our history, and we must acknowledge that, lest we repeat it," Harris said in a statement Friday.
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Early on Tuesday morning, Trump tweeted, "all Republicans must remember what they are witnessing here - a lynching" about the ongoing impeachment inquiry he faces.
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This is 2019, people pointed out: That very week, President Donald Trump was criticized for comparing the impeachment proceedings to "a lynching" on Twitter.
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Barbecue has also been used as a metaphor for the lynching of black bodies, and was a social and civic ritual of white supremacy.
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The Legacy of Lynching is a collaboration between the museum and the nonprofit Equal Justice Initiative, presenting racial histories we've long been asleep to.
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Yet The Legacy of Lynching comes at a time when subtlety barely perks the ears of those who most need to hear and understand.
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The two men with arrest warrants for allegedly being involved in Woodroffe's lynching seem to have fled, according to Ucayali region prosecutor Ricardo Jimenez.
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"Blood at the Root," whose title is taken from a stanza of "Strange Fruit," the hauntingly painful song about lynching, is no redemption tale.
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Davis Houck, a professor of civil-rights history and rhetoric at Florida State University, told Business Insider the comparison "trivializes the history" behind lynching.
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The 2015 lynching of a Muslim man by Hindu villagers accusing him of cow slaughter in India's northern Uttar Pradesh state prompted national outrage.
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More than 100 years ago, the lynching of a Jewish factory superintendent, Leo Frank, in Marietta, Ga., shocked the Jewish community and the nation.
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As Burke summarized Higginbotham's story — his fateful encounter with Roberts, the "ridiculously quick trial" and the lynching itself — his elderly son remained dry-eyed.
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There was little evidence beyond the confessional statements read into the record and the conflicting and sometimes contradictory versions of the lynching were confusing.
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Wells pointed to the rise of lynching after the fall of slavery as not merely a legal matter to be rectified with new laws.
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Mayor Richard C. Cushing of Omaha condemned the lynching as ""the most deplorable thing that has ever happened in the history of the country.
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Because of how much this Senate procedure has thwarted civil rights legislation including bills that would make lynching a federal crime, lawmakers including Sen.
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But when Thomas compared the hearing to a lynching, he likened the allegations toward him to the racist stereotype that black men are hypersexual.
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Unlike in the Caravaggio, here that violence never resolves into beauty, and its actual-scale lynching grows only more disturbing the longer you look.
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"If Republicans were doing this, you'd be O.K. with it, calling it a political lynching because that's literally what it is," Mr. Graham said.
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The most alarming trend has been the lynching of Muslims suspected of possessing beef, for ferrying home cattle purchased legitimately from cattle markets elsewhere.
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Washington (CNN)Lawmakers in the House of Representatives are set to cast a historic vote this week to designate lynching as a federal crime.
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In many of the communities where I filmed, at least half of the town came out to watch a lynching and cheer it on.
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This is 2019, people pointed out: That very week, President Donald Trump was criticized for comparing the impeachment proceedings to "a lynching" on Twitter.
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Last month, the organization opened both a museum on the legacy of slavery and a memorial in Montgomery to address the era of lynching.
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As recently as the mid-20th century, Americans used "outrage" very differently: It referred to things like floggings, torture, rape, mutilation, arson and lynching.
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" She did not answer — though her husband, 73, has had many things to say, including this week controversially comparing the investigation to a "lynching.
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But also here are intimations of horror: slaves' cabins, 19th-century photographs of slaves' backs scarred by flogging, the open pants of lynching victims.
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" In the weeks after that statement came the Corriere front page, which the newspaper defended, saying the criticism of it was like a "lynching.
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The Senate passed legislation in 2018 to make lynching a federal hate crime, but it ultimately did not make it through the lower chamber.
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Though they weren't successful, he was pardoned, and in 19843 the board recognized the state's culpability in his lynching by failing to protect him.
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That man, Yogi Adityanath, has called for the family of the first lynching victim to be tried for illegally storing beef in their home.
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E.J.I. gave the approximate address for the lynching as 88 Le Conte Street, in what was described as the central business district of Pittsview.
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Then, in 2014, Jason M. McGraw, a student at the Northeastern University School of Law in Boston, wrote a research paper about the lynching.
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Today, more than six decades later, the local communities in towns closely connected to Emmett's story are grappling with the legacy of the lynching.
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I did a graduate minor in African-American studies, and I took this really awesome course taught by Sundiata Cha-Jua, on lynching studies.
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Mr. Biden continued to co-sponsor updates to the Civil Rights Act and anti-lynching legislation and spoke out against apartheid in South Africa.
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Her 1986 play "Dreaming Emmett" was about Emmett Till, whose lynching in Mississippi in 1955 was a key moment in the U.S. civil rights movement.
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The process became so vicious and nasty, Justice Thomas in what is now infamous, famous comments, he referred to it as a high-tech lynching.
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In 2005, a group of white ministers in Abbeville, South Carolina apologized for crimes against African-Americans, including the 1916 lynching of a black farmer.
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As the chief learned more about the lynching, he came to understand how it had strained relations between his force and the African-American community.
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The investigation went nowhere but it led the NAACP to expand its definition of lynching beyond the public spectacles traditionally associated with the mob violence.
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But we can't just stand by while this public lynching goes on, and the vulture tweeters and others who never met Michael go after him.
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Erased is the person who believed that lynching was a way to control white women's sexuality, especially those who had sexual relationships with black men.
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But given a Yiddish nickname of iffy accuracy, he still prefers Yiddish a lot more than the lynching talk he heard growing up in Omaha.
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Dots marked lynching trees, white grids outlined auction blocks, and narrow shapes represented Harriet Jacobs's hidden garrett, a site that represented an architecture of freedom.
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In the mid-40s, when polarization was much lower, there were members of both parties working together to block anti-lynching laws and protect segregation.
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And to a man who can't see beyond his own ego, "lynching" must feel like an apt analogy for the scrutiny of his political opponents.
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Hoaxes, misinformation, and political propaganda have spread rapidly through Facebook-owned WhatsApp, inciting panic and riots, and, in at least one instance, fueling a lynching.
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On Tuesday, he called the House Democrats' inquiry a "lynching," stunningly comparing the current constitutional process with America's dark history of murders of African-Americans.
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The site focuses on its educational aspects, framing the map around the history of lynching and how the violent practice's effects are still felt today.
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WHEN Clarence Thomas, rigid with anger, accused the Senate judiciary committee of subjecting him to a "high-tech lynching for uppity blacks", white America winced.
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Nixon Anita Hill: 'I am ready to hold Joe Biden accountable' Anita Hill: Trump co-opting 'lynching' language is 'ludicrous and insulting' MORE's confirmation hearing.
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Journalist Ida B. Wells, who rebutted stereotypes of sexual violence perpetrated by black men, had her office burned down and was threatened with lynching herself.
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Trump called the probe a "lynching" on Monday — sparking backlash from Democrats and Republicans alike because the word invokes the country's history of racist killings.
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The anti-media backlash is often ugly (think of the Trump rally attendee wearing a T-shirt that called for lynching reporters) and dramatically exaggerated.
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"Lynching is a dark, despicable part of our history, and we must acknowledge that, lest we repeat it," Harris said in a statement on Friday.
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While the President ducked all the fights for an anti-lynching bill, Willkie deepened his friendship and alliance with the N.A.A.C.P.'s leader, Walter White.
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"With the history of lynching of Mississippi, you just don't say something like that," chairwoman of the Lafayette County Democrats Cristen Hemmins told the Post.
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The Justice for Victims of Lynching Act, which passed unanimously, was introduced earlier this year by the chamber's three African-American senators: California Democratic Sen.
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His September 2017 music video for the viral hit "Look at Me" sparked backlash for staging a scene depicting XXXTentacion lynching a young white boy.
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The women have received death threats, he said, and their names have been paired on social media with images of nooses and references to lynching.
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During her performance of Ida B. Wells's painful anti-lynching speech, "This Awful Slaughter," actress Adepero Oduye became weak, and had to exit the stage.
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But, on the other hand, I am aware that in the US, people used to send each other lynching postcards, so maybe I'm slightly naïve.
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The only three black senators on Capitol Hill — Kamala Harris, Cory Booker, and Tim Scott — introduced bipartisan legislation Friday to make lynching a federal crime.
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There are many such events throughout American history, from the destruction of "Black Wall Street" in Tulsa, Oklahoma, to the 1919 mass lynching in Arkansas.
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Lynching, however, was repeatedly evoked in American politics through the latter half of the 20th century to cast legal proceedings as unjust mob-driven affairs.
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Did we need for that concept to be born out of an upsetting beatdown and near-lynching of a black police officer in postwar America?
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"We will vigorously resist this attempted public lynching of a black man who has made extraordinary contributions to our culture," it said in a statement.
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The New York Times quoted Wells at length in July 1894, detailing a speech she gave summarizing her success in publicizing American lynching in Britain.
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Throughout their lives, they put themselves at risk and exposed themselves, funneling the money they were able to make into abolition, civil rights, anti-lynching.
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Lynching was intended to demonstrate that any black person, male or female, adult or child, could be accused of any offense and be ritually slaughtered.
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Passages like "We have come, treading our path through the blood of the slaughtered" acknowledge the place of lynching and slavery in the national history.
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For black Americans, the struggle of emancipation is riddled with its failures: sharecropping, lynching, segregation, disenfranchisement and brutal, unfair treatment by the criminal justice system.
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Instead it is the objection that a white artist has no right to paint a subject like a lynching victim that entirely misses the point.
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Richardson, in his opening, seemed to suggest that lynching had not ceased in South Carolina; it had just been on a sixty-eight-year hiatus.
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" Perhaps nowhere is Graham's loyalty to Trump more salient than when it comes to the House impeachment inquiry, which he has derided as a "lynching.
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In another account of Cameron's near-lynching, Rosenblum learns of a thirteen-year-old African-American girl who happened to be walking toward the courthouse.
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" After the thwarted lynching in Florida, the state legislature enacted a law requiring a license to possess "a pistol, Winchester rifle or other repeating rifle.
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David Driskell's brown-toned canvas "Behold Thy Son," a work of anguished expressionism, was painted in 1956, a year after the lynching of Emmett Till.
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Never mind the once pervasive presence of the Ku Klux Klan on school boards and newspaper editorial pages and the savage lynching of Mexican-Americans.
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During the controversy, Stevenson visited the University of Texas Law School, in Austin, for a conference on the relationship between the death penalty and lynching.
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Kamala Harris, who last month described Smollett's attack claim as an "attempted modern day lynching," said she's frustrated and disappointed by the turn of events.
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Jackson's family has denied the allegations in "Leaving Neverland," calling the film a "public lynching" and suggesting that the accusers are motivated by financial gain.
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In all the areas where the recent lynching cases occurred, there were no such gangs, and the messages and reports were all false, police said.
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The New Brunswick Presbytery, responsible for ousting William, publicly apologized and, as a gesture of recompense for what it termed "ecclesiastical lynching," retired the mortgage.
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"Though lynching in general is to be condemned, yet to every case there is an exception," The Santa Fe New Mexican reported at the time.
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In western Gujarat and eastern West Bengal state hundreds took to the streets carrying posters that read 'No more lynching in the name of religion.
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Products in these stores reminded black shoppers that whites did not consider them deserving of human dignity: Grotesque caricatures of black faces were used as a "humorous" way to sell toothpaste, soap and nearly anything else; far more harrowing, with the rise of public "spectacle" lynching in the 1890s, black people could find the charred remains of lynching victims for sale alongside postcards commemorating the event.
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