Without Sanctuary

Without Sanctuary

by James Allen

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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 crow

ISBN: 9780944092699

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"It’s a book where a photographer went around in the South during the times of slavery and documented lynchings."

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