Tag Archives: KKK Lynchings

Thursday Open Thread

Posted on August 24, 2017 by rikyrah

The REAL monuments that tells America’s TRUE HISTORY. Thoughts on Confederate Statues from a Southern White Male Growing up in the South, I was told (and unfortunately believed) a number of things about the Confederacy. Of course, I heard the common … Continue reading →

Posted in Black History, Civil Rights, Current Events, Domestic Terrorism, Hate Crime, Hate Groups, Healing, Heritage, History, Human Rights, Institutional Racism, Jim Crow laws, Lynching, Media, Memorial, Open Thread, Politics, racial hate, Racial Oppression, racial terror, Racism, White Supremacy | Tagged , , , , , | 55 Comments

Black History | FBI investigates claim suspects in 1946 Georgia mass lynching may be alive

Posted on February 20, 2015 by SouthernGirl2

US authorities are investigating whether some of those responsible for one of the American south’s most notorious mass lynchings are still alive, in an attempt to finally bring prosecutions over the brutal unsolved killings. FBI agents have questioned a man … Continue reading →

Posted in Black Codes, Black History, Civil Rights, Current Events, Department of Justice, discrimination, Domestic Terrorism, Hate Crime, History, Human Rights, Institutional Racism, Jim Crow laws, Justice, Lynching, News, Open Thread, Racism | Tagged , , , , , , , , , , , , , , | 13 Comments

Black History | Characteristics of the Lynching Era

Posted on February 15, 2015 by SouthernGirl2

The thousands of African Americans lynched between 1880 and 1950 differed in many respects, but in most cases, the circumstances of their murders can be categorized as one or more of the following 1. Lynchings that resulted from a wildly … Continue reading →

Posted in Black History, Civil Rights, discrimination, Domestic Terrorism, Hate Crime, History, Human Rights, Institutional Racism, Jim Crow laws, News, Open Thread, Racism | Tagged , , , , , , , , | 21 Comments