“THE LEGACY OF LYNCHING”

Jess Brooks
On Race — isms
1 min readFeb 19, 2015

“This week, 700 new victims were added to the tally of over 3,200 African-Americans lynched in the Jim Crow era South. Bryan Stevenson, executive director of the Equal Justice Initiative, says we’ve got the narrative of lynchings and their legacy wrong, too.”

A very thought-provoking interview on classifying the South to North migration of the early 19th century as the flight of refugees from terrorism

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Jess Brooks
On Race — isms

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