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An estimated 5,000 Black human beings were lynched in the United States between the years 1890 and 1960. By averages, that’s one African-American dying horribly, in racist mob violence, every five days for seventy years. In almost all of these cases, no one was ever charged for the crimes. So affirms the guest on my WBAI-NY \/ 99.5 FM radio show, NONFICTION, this afternoon, Friday, April 25, 2 pm ET.<\/p>\n
In her book, On the Courthouse Lawn: Confronting the Legacy of Lynching in the Twenty-first Century<\/em> (Beacon), Sherrilyn A. Ifill<\/a>, a professor of law at the University of Maryland School of Law, dissects the history of lynching by narrowing in on instances of it in the Maryland area.<\/p>\n The title of her book refers to the fact that, as opposed to solely taking place covertly, in hidden, wooded areas, lynching was often done right at the justice seat, in plain sight of law enforcement, in daylight.<\/p>\n Such is the case in the above photo, which forms the cover of Dr. Ifill’s book. It’s from a postcard; memorabilia of a lynching was often traded, sold, or sent to friends and family.<\/p>\n According to records<\/a>, it documents the lynching of Lige Daniels, in a Texas town called Center, on August 3, 1920. Reportedly, the back reads, “He killed Earl’s grandma. She was Florence’s mother. Give this to Bud. From Aunt Myrtle.”<\/p>\n You can hear this thoughtful woman’s ideas by tuning in at 2 pm. If you’re outside of the New York tri-state, you can check out our stream<\/a> on the web. If you miss the live show, check out our archive<\/a> for up to two weeks after broadcast.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" An estimated 5,000 Black human beings were lynched in the United States between the years 1890 and 1960. By averages, that’s one African-American dying horribly, in racist mob violence, every five days for seventy years. In almost all of these cases, no one was ever charged for the crimes. So affirms the guest on my […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[46,28,33,51,37,47,64,9,20,26,25],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/harryallen.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/504"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/harryallen.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/harryallen.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/harryallen.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/harryallen.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=504"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/harryallen.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/504\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/harryallen.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=504"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/harryallen.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=504"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/harryallen.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=504"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}