Confronting History in "Lynching Postcards"

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Thom Powers
Documentary of the Week | Jan 28, 2022

Christine Turner's short documentary "Lynching Postcards" examines the history of racial terror lynchings in America that were memorialized with photographic souvenirs. Historians Terry Anne Scott, Yohuru Williams and Leigh Raiford explain how the postcards flourished and were eventually used as evidence by anti-lynching activists.

 

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