lynching

Traces the life and legacy of the nineteenth-century activist and pioneer, documenting her birth into slavery, her career as a journalist and a pioneer for civil rights and suffrage, and her determination to counter lynching.

Explores the long range impact of the January 1942 lynching upon the civil rights of African Americans.

A posse captures and hangs three men believed to be guilty of cattle rustling and murder, only to learn later that the men were innocent.

Traces the history of "Strange Fruit," a controversial ballad about a lynched African-American man hanging from a tree, popularized by jazz singer Billie Holiday in the 1940s.

Examines the death of Emmett Till, a fourteen-year-old African-American boy from Chicago murdered by two white men in August 1955 after he reportedly whistled at a white woman in a Mississippi grocery store, and discusses the killing's impact as a catalyst for the civil rights movement.

A biography of the black woman journalist who campaigned for the civil rights of women and other minorities and was a founder of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People in 1909.

Chronicles the life of civil rights advocate and suffragist Ida B. Wells, examining her campaign against lynching, her work as a journalist, and her experiences in Chicago politics.

Describes the life and fate of Leo Frank, a Jewish American factory worker who was convicted of murdering thirteen-year-old Mary Phagan and later kidnapped from the prison and hung by a mob.

In a rural southern town in 1946, a white man and his son witness the lynching of an innocent black man. Includes historical note on lynching.

Simeon Wright, the cousin of Emmett Till, a fourteen-year-old African-American who was beaten and killed in 1955 for whistling at a white woman, reflects on what it was like to grow up in Mississippi during the 1940s and 1950s, reveals details about the night Emmett was kidnapped, and reflects on how the crime and trial affected his family and the community.