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On June 15, 1930, Dennis Hubert encountered seven white men who accused him of insulting a white woman, an allegation that frequently served as justification for racial violence during this period.

Those two lynchings, in 1931 and 1933, were the last recorded in Maryland, and it's unclear whether any witnesses are still alive. But those events and other incidents of racial violence in the Jim ...

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A panel of Black journalists, media scholars and leaders discussed the legacy of how news outlets covered lynching during the Maryland Lynching Truth and Reconciliation Commission’s public ...

The song was inspired by a photo showing the 1930 lynching of two African-American men, Thomas Shipp and Abram Smith, in Marion, Ind. as a crowd of mostly white people gather around the two dead men.

In the 1930s, Robert F. Wagner, a U.S. Senator from New York, and Edward Costigan, a U.S. Senator from Colorado, drafted an anti-lynching bill that proposed federal trials for any law enforcement ...

America's Black Holocaust Museum was founded in Milwaukee by James Cameron, who survived a lynching in 1930 in Marion, Indiana, when he was 16 years old. According to the museum’s executive ...