On July 9, 1883, twenty men stormed the jail in Morehouse Parish, Louisiana, kidnapped Henderson Lee, a black man charged with larceny, and hanged him. Events l

Lynched chronicles the history and aftermath of lynching in America. By rooting her work in oral histories, Angela D. Sims gives voice to the memories of Africa

Gruesome photographs document the victims of lynchings and the society that allowed mob violence.

The Penalty For Success: My Father Was Lynched In Lowndes County Alabama tells the story of the murder of a black man in 1940s Lowndes County, Alabama. It is a

This visual and textual study of lynchings that took place in California between 1850 and 1935 shows that race-based lynching in the United States reached far b