Local historians estimate around 11 lynchings happened in Madison County alone, and the Madison County Remembrance Project is ...

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 ...

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