Tag Archives: Lynching

For the past two and a half years, I’ve been wondering what made America great. What was so great about America and how exactly do we make her great...

“How is the white man going to control the government?” asked James K. Vardaman in 1907. “If it is necessary, every Negro in the state will be lynched;...

Filling the wooden pews that line the sanctuary of Second Baptist Church on Jackson Ave., a sea of black and white faces sat as one, bound together in...

A plaque memorializing Elwood Higginbottom, the seventh and last person known to be lynched in Lafayette County in 1935, will be installed this Saturday...

Efforts to memorialize the 1935 killing of Elwood Higginbottom, the seventh and last person known to be lynched in Lafayette County, continued on Tuesday...