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The truth
Lynching preachers: How black pastors resisted Jim Crow and white pastors incited racial violence
Religion was no barrier for these white murderers, as I’ve discovered in my research on Christianity and lynch mobs in the Reconstruction-era South; white preachers incited racial violence, joined the Ku Klux Klan and lynched black people, sometimes, the victim was a pastor.
A funeral held in July 1945 for two victims of the Ku Klux Klan, George Dorsey and his sister, Dorothy Dorsey Malcolm, of Walton County, Georgia, held at the Mt. Perry Baptist Church Sunday. Bettman via Getty
Malcolm Brian Foley, PhD Candidate in Religion - Historical Studies, Baylor University
The Conversation•February 10, 2020
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The truth
Lynching preachers: How black pastors resisted Jim Crow and white pastors incited racial violence
Lynching preachers: How black pastors resisted Jim Crow and white pastors incited racial violence
White lynch mobs in America murdered at least 4,467 people between 1883 and 1941, hanging, burning, dismembering, garroting and blowtorching their victims. Their violence was widespread but not indiscriminate: About 3,300 of the lynched were black, according to the most recent count by...
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A funeral held in July 1945 for two victims of the Ku Klux Klan, George Dorsey and his sister, Dorothy Dorsey Malcolm, of Walton County, Georgia, held at the Mt. Perry Baptist Church Sunday. Bettman via Getty
Malcolm Brian Foley, PhD Candidate in Religion - Historical Studies, Baylor University
The Conversation•February 10, 2020
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