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July 25 ( Read more... )

1946 event recreated in hopes of jarring memories, consciences ( Read more... )

Service seeks reconciliation over 1916 lynching ( Read more... )

After years of filibustering, it offers atonement ( Read more... )

Today the US Senate "by voice vote approved an apology for blocking anti-lynching legislation at a time when mob violence against black Americans was commonplace." (Source: http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/8206697/Read more... )

White mob drag, shoot 4 black sharecroppersATLANTA - Activists marched Saturday near the site where four black sharecroppers were killed in 1946, hoping publicity about the lynchings would cause someone to step forward with information so the deaths could join the list of civil rights-era cases being prosecuted ( Read more... )

It’s been raining all day here in Orlando ( Read more... )

A Dream Deferred African Americans at Emory and Oxford Colleges 1836-1968

An Exhibition of Reflection and Reconciliation

Family Memories

Memories of Labor

Faith and Community

Education and Achievement

Slavery

Community Research

Protesting Racial Violence

There's also a link for Desegregation--but I think it's still under construction.

Just joined this community. Lately I've been doing some reading on the lynching incidents that took place in the U.S. until well into the middle part of the twentieth century. We've all learned a little about the lynchings in our Am. History class at some point and I was horrified that something so inhumane could happen, but it was all the more ( Read more... )