Lynching Postcards Token of a Great Day

Christine Turner
Darian Dauchan, Biko Eisen-Martin, Jimmie Jeter, Kara Young
2021
United States
Completed
English
15m
Overview
During 1880-1968 over 4,000 African Americans were lynched at the hands of white mobs. These lynchings were commemorated through souvenir postcards that would ultimately be subverted by Black activists to expose racist violence in the U.S.