Lynchings, were a form of racial terror, said historian Elijah Gaddis, an assistant professor of history at Auburn University. No state used the tactic more than Mississippi.
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Yazoo City’s newspaper provided a forum for its pro-lynching readership
The Yazoo City Herald, a white-owned newspaper, covered lynchings, sometimes delivering inconsistent or problematic reporting.
Massive public lynchings of Black men were nurtured by Waco, Texas, newspapers
In Waco, Texas, up to 15,000 white men, women and children, elected officials and law enforcement would gather to watch public lynchings of Black men.
Anti-lynching laws have not passed Congress in 130 years
In January 1900, George Henry White, the only Black man within the U.S. House, proposed a bill to ban lynching. During his speech, he was interrupted and the bill never went past the House Judiciary Committee.
Newspapers printed hate for scores of years, leading to racist violence
Over several decades, hundreds of white-owned newspapers across the U.S. fueled racist hate crimes against Black Americans.
In the 1880s, election fraud and a massacre stopped Black progress
White supremacists and newspapers conspired to take down a progressive, integrated party in Danville, Virginia.