When James Byrd Jr. was lynched in Alabama in 1865, it was the second time in his life that the federal government had publicly blamed a criminal.At the time, the lynching of James Brown, a Black man, in 1963, was considered the first mass lynching.In his book Black on Black, historian James B. Baughman says […]
Posted November 21, 2019 12:11:56The lynching of a white man in Tennessee in the 1860s is being resurrected in a new museum that is now part of the Charlottesville, Virginia, city government.The Virginia Historical Society of Charlottesville opened its doors to the public this week for a free public lecture about the history of the […]
