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Without Sanctuary: Lynching Photography in America 1st (first) Edition by James Allen published by Twin Palms Publishers (2000) Paperback – January 1, 1994

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Lynching in America: Confronting the Legacy of Racial Terror
Lynching in America: Confronting the Legacy of Racial Terror
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The Tuskegee Institute records the lynching of 3,436 blacks between 1882 and 1950. This is probably a small percentage of these murders, which were seldom reported, and led to the creation of the NAACP in 1909, an organization dedicated to passing federal anti-lynching laws. Through all this terror and carnage someone -- many times a professional photographer -- carried a camera and took pictures of the events. These lynching photographs were often made into postcards and sold as souvenirs to the crowds in attendance. These images are some of photography's most brutal, surviving to this day so that we may now look back on the terrorism unleashed on America's African-American community and perhaps know our history and ourselves better. The almost one hundred images reproduced here are a testament to the camera's ability to make us remember what we often choose to forget.
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  • ASIN ‏ : ‎ B00E31E57Q
  • Publisher ‏ : ‎ Twin Palms Publishers; 57052nd edition (January 1, 1994)
  • Language ‏ : ‎ English
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4.8 out of 5 stars
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And this was AFTER slavery ended..
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And this was AFTER slavery ended..
True American History! Please buy & read! I've been eyeing this book for a long while and finally got it. I showed to my 2 daughters 13 & 14 teaching them American History the public school system have deemed unnecessary. My kids were made to learn the German Holocaust but not the American Holocaust. All of American history needs to be taught!
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Stephen Edmonds
5.0 out of 5 stars True History is important to the growth of our Nation.
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In the current environment, there is a push to delete parts of our nation's history. Thos biography has more importance than George Washington not lying about a tree. When we can face and accept where we've been, it strengthen race relations in America.
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5.0 out of 5 stars An Investment
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I bought this book as a future heirloom for my family. It is important that my children's children's children never forget this ugly American past as there are attempts to erase our voice and suffering from the general education of children in this country.
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Charles Perry, Jr.
5.0 out of 5 stars The Real History
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Real deal photos with the real history. It wasn’t too long ago
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5.0 out of 5 stars Evidence of trained evil
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Sad part is, this mindset still exists. It's happening in Palestine, Gaza, Haiti, Ukraine and in the US with bioweaponry. What is it, that make these people so hated and despised when they've contributed so much to the world? The bible has to be true, truth that cannot be refuted or denied. I just pray the imposters of these people are brought to justice.
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GOLDEN RULE
5.0 out of 5 stars MUST HAVE REFERENCE BOOK
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For the novice and serious historian, the codification of a picture says a thousand words!
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Ra-Set
4.0 out of 5 stars a reason for reparations
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a sad but true testimony of this country's ugliest history the killing of a person based on skin color this book is one of the many reasons African Americans needs reparations without fail or this can happen again and to some degree IS STILL happening economically, socially, and psychologically. This country has produced a great many wrongs to everyone here but none greater than this and this has not been corrected yet.
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Shirley Champion
5.0 out of 5 stars Story was short
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Too many pictures without wording
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The Jim Crow era south was very disturbing.
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Raye
5.0 out of 5 stars Painful... But Worth the read
Reviewed in Canada on February 7, 2023
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This book is a painful read... I got this book about noon, it is now 320 and I have not stopped reading... As a child I a had heard the stories from my elders and was shocked... But to read more horrid stories and to have photos to show what really happened, is heart breaking... "America's Holocaust" was used when telling of this book and its contents... And it does not lie

As I said, painful ... But so worth knowing the history, so that it may not be repeated...
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5.0 out of 5 stars The truth is hard to take
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Not an easy book but extremely necessary. What a sorry brood we are.
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Gorgonio Gatto
5.0 out of 5 stars STORIA DEGLI USA
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Questi dolorosi fatti della Storia di un grande paese come gli Stati Uniti d' America, sono poco conosciuti in Italia.
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John McIntyre
5.0 out of 5 stars informative
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Very informative but missed some important events like the mass lynchings called the Tulsa race massacre. The book also fails to put the violence into its modern context. The lynchings were spoken of as if they were historical events words like ''never again'' are used while the last lynching took place in Texas on June 7, 1998 with the killing of James Byrd, (49 years old) in East Texas. In its simplest form Lynchings are murder without trial perpetrated by white privilege against ethnic minorities, by white against non whites. With America' burgeoning Drone assassination program now killing on an industrial scale targeting weddings and funerals alike it is pure fantasy to believe that the killing has stopped. Grim though the killings are the ethos that ethnic minorities are fair game for violence is as much part of American ideology today as it was in the early 1900's. Just ask the men women and children of the Bikini islands who were experimented on by the US government to test how exposure to nuclear radiation killed over the long and medium term. If you thought the description of the lynching of a pregnant woman was grim this mirrors the harrowing accounts of the Bikini Islanders much closer to our current day where pregnant women and children were experimented on dying in excruciating agony.
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