Lynchings: Images And History

The Atlanta Center for Civil and Human Rights has acquired a collection of lynching images displayed in the "Without Sanctuary" exhibition previously shown in New York and Atlanta. Brent Staples notes that "many of the people who attended lynchings as children in the 1930s and 40's must still be alive and walking the streets of the principal states of the lynching belt. They include Mississippi, Georgia, Alabama, Arkansas, Louisiana and Texas, all of which voted against the first black president."