Black History : Washington Post harrowingly reports: ‘Lynchings in Mississippi never stopped’

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Washington Post harrowingly reports: ‘Lynchings in Mississippi never stopped’

Washington Post harrowingly reports: ‘Lynchings in Mississippi never stopped’

“The last recording lynching in the United States was in 1981,” says Jill Collen Jefferson, who founded a civil rights […] The post Washington Post harrowingly reports: ‘Lynchings in Mississippi never stopped’ appeared first on TheGrio.

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In The Post, Jefferson details eight specific victims aged 17 to 55 who were found dead by hanging in Mississippi between June 2000 and May 2019. All eight deaths were ruled suicides, but their kin contend they were lynched. Jefferson is working with the families to get them justice.



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LYNCHING IN AMERICA: CONFRONTING THE LEGACY OF RACIAL TERROR​

Lynching in America: Confronting the Legacy of Racial Terror

To heal the wounds from our present, we must face our past.

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the fight continues

It was the ‘deadliest place’ for Black people in the US. That didn’t stop these high school students from changing history​

It was the ‘deadliest place’ for Black people in the US. That didn’t stop these high school students from changing history

More than 100 students walked out of Burglund High in Mississippi to protest racial injustice. Their work helped rally young people across the South.

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On Oct. 4, 1961, more than 100 students walked out of Burglund High School in McComb to protest Travis’ expulsion for participating in civil rights demonstrations. The students and others in the Black community were also angry about the brazen murder days before of civil rights activist Herbert Lee by a white state lawmaker. They wanted an end to racial violence, segregation and barriers to voting.

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