Writers of Wrongs#OTD (May 5) in 1891, a grand jury at #NewOrleans found justification for a vigilante force that broke into a prison and murdered 11 suspected #Mafia members.
https://www.writersofwrongs.com/2018/05/1891-grand-jury-indicts-bribers-defends.html
Liam O'Mara IV, PhDThe impact of #BillieHoliday on the history of #jazz is incalculable, for her singing and for vocal improvisation. She was born in Philadelphia on #ThisDayInHistory in 1915. Here is her version of the #AbelMeeropol song #StrangeFruit, about #lynchings:
https://zurl.co/xXgTf
https://zurl.co/xXgTf
Child of a former #slave, radical #LovettFortWhiteman died on #ThisDayInHistory in 1939 in a Soviet #gulag. He worked in the US with #IWW & against #lynchings, but moved to the #USSR in 1924, later settling there. He asked permission to return to the US in 1937, then disappeared.
GravitasAmerican History of Lynchings
American History of Lynchings
Nicomohttps://youtube.com/shorts/lJs3bZ6XnAU?feature=shared
#Mississippi #Lynchings 2 Men found #Hanging from trees
One Black the other Homeless
RT
golden_c7ntWhen you get a milkshake, there are different flavors. You can do a lot of things with it other than drink it. You can throw it, pour it, shoot it, beat it, hang it in a tree. But it never stops being a milkshake.
#lynchings never stopped. Sometimes they just switch up the flavor. Sometimes not.
azteclady has movedIt's September 2025, and two Black men were lynched in Mississippi on Monday the 15th.
Cops may rule these suicide, as they've done in the past when Black men are found hanging from trees in the state, but given Mississippi's own history, the state of the U.S. today, and the fact that cops lie every time they say or write anything, I'm betting it's lynchings.
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#TreyReed #CoryZukatis #Mississippi #USPolitics #Lynchings
https://blackzonemagazine.com/not-one-but-two-men-were-found-hanging-in-mississippi
ResearchBuzz: FirehoseNortheastern University: Archive of racial homicides expands, exposing history that’s ‘not easy to grapple with’. “[Sidney Batiste and Dorothy Godley] are two of the more than 290 names recently added to the Burnham-Nobles Digital Archive of the Civil Rights and Restorative Justice (CRRJ) clinic at Northeastern University. The archive is one of the most comprehensive digital records of […]
🏳️🌈Jamez Re!nert🏳️🌈Aren't bounties only given for migrants & "illegals"? What do they do with their victims if they can't get a bounty for them? Just release them? So they can press charges or sue them later?
What happens to the non-bountied victims after they're kidnapped?
#KKK #Lynchings #Executions #Racism #Nazis
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Audubon Ballroon (he/him)Five years ago I posted this.
Many dismissed it out of hand without doing their due diligence. I would ask these people to look into their souls to question what it is about themselves that
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