The U.S. Congress is once again at an impasse over a widely backed bill to designate lynching as a federal hate crime. Here’s a look at the vile U.S. history of lynchings that targeted Blacks, Latinos, Native Americans and Asian Americans #twitterstorianshttps://apnews.com/be4be7eb84b6a0648f189a1332914af1 …
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Rev. David Kennedy stands outside the Echo Theater holding a photo of his great uncle's lynching, in Laurens, S.C. Though the U.S. has tried to ignore its history of
#lynchings descendents of victims have not forgottenpic.twitter.com/aSbi2DRD4r
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Often overlooked in U.S. history are the lynchings of Mexican Americans in the American West. From 1910 to 1920 an estimated 5,000 Mexican Americans “disappeared.” The Texas Rangers were largely the culprits. It was so bad the
@NAACP even wanted to investigate#Lynchingspic.twitter.com/fr72sDHMAP
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Here’s a map of reported lynchings that we know.
#TalkingAboutRacepic.twitter.com/L0xUX9GyL6
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