According to black journalist and editor Ida B. Wells, who launched a fierce anti-lynching campaign in the 1890s, the lynching of successful black people was a means of subordinating potential ...

A historical marker has been unveiled in honor of Robert Mosley, a victim of an 1890 lynching in Alabama, per WAFF. Mosley was killed after a white woman accused him of burying him alive.

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The Equal Justice Initiative believes Mosley is one of at least ten victims of lynching in Madison County. The goal is to give every one of them a marker like the one erected Saturday. Carl Cooney ...

Carroll County’s history of racial violence, including the 1885 lynching of an African American man named Townsend Cook, was the subject of a weekend hearing in Westminster. The event Saturday ...

According to black journalist and editor Ida B. Wells, who launched a fierce anti-lynching campaign in the 1890s, the lynching of successful black people was a means of subordinating potential ...