…From the trauma of slavery, the museum's journey takes you through the slim glimmer of hope that was emancipation and the Reconstruction period into the renewed subjugation of lynching. A wall of contemporary newspaper headlines records such unconscionable events as: "Lynched Because He Didn't Say 'Mr'", "Oil Soaked Negroes Burned" and "Triple Lynching in Georgia – Lynchers Could Not Find the Negro They Wanted and So Took Three Others"…
Tuesday, September 21, 2021
‘Truth-telling has to happen’: the museum of America’s racist history
… The museum pulls no punches. One section memorializes the children killed in racial terror lynchings: "Four-year-old Black girl Lillie Mike, her six-year-old sister Emma Mike, lynched by a white mob 1884, Calhoun County, Georgia."…
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