Confronting the Legacy of Lynching in the Twenty-first Century
by
Sherrilyn Ifill
Language: English
Release Date: February 15, 2007
Nearly 5,000 black Americans were lynched between 1890 and 1960. Over forty years later, Sherrilyn Ifill's On the Courthouse Lawn examines the numerous ways that this racial trauma still resounds across the United States. While the lynchings and their immediate aftermath were devastating, the little-known...