Lynching Archives

Lynching

Family Tradition

From Lynching in America, a report published in February by the Equal Justice Initiative, an organization based in Montgomery, Alabama, that litigates on behalf of indigent and marginalized defendants.

The war on telephone poles

by Eula Biss,

That’s as fair as I know how to make it

Art by David Rathman,

The mobbing

by J. Saunders (Jay Saunders) Redding,

Personal and otherwise

by Lurton Blassingame,

Free speech

by Florence Woolston,

Marching through Georgia

by Stephen Graham,

Following Sherman's footsteps to-day (part II)

Editor’s easy chair

by Harper’s Staff,

The last lynching in Cimarron

by Cyrus Townsend Brady,

Salvation Gap

by Owen Wister,

The serenade at Siskiyou