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View Resource Lynching in America: NPR's Morning Edition 04/04/2000

For over 25 years, collector James Allen accumulated a disturbing but important visual legacy of racial violence in America: photos and postcards taken and sold as souvenirs at lynchings across the country. These photos were recently published in a book accompanied by a number of essays and then placed on display at the New York Historical Society. In addition, more information on Allen's photo...

https://www.npr.org/2000/04/04/1072448/lynching-in-america