Why Do We Need Black History Month?
EQUAL JUSTICE INITIATIVE - "CONFRONTING THE LEGACY OF RACIAL TERROR"
An Alabama-based racial justice group is courting controversy for its plan to mark the locations where white mobs hung African-American men, women and children from trees and telephone poles in southern U.S. states for more than 70 years. The Equal Justice Initiative has compiled an inventory of 3,959 victims of “racial terror lynchings” that occurred in 12 Southern states from 1877 to 1950.
http://www.ibtimes.com/black-history-month-2015-racial-justice-group-plans-mark-thousands-sites-where-blacks-1811260
From the report - "...racial terror lynching was much more prevalent than previously reported." http://www.eji.org/files/EJI%20Lynching%20in%20America%20SUMMARY.pdf
African American Lynching Victims by State, 1877-1950
Alabama 326
Arkansas 503
Florida 331
Georgia 586
Kentucky 154
Louisiana 540
Mississippi 576
North Carolina 102
South Carolina 164
Tennessee 225
Texas 376
Virginia 76
Total 3959
Lynchings were not restricted to the south as shown by this 1930 lynching in Marion, Indiana.
SCOTTSBORO BOYS MUSEUM & CULTURAL CENTER
(photo by G. Morgan)
Every Sunday in February - The Scottsboro Boys Museum and Cultural Center will present programs begining at 2:30 pm. Presented in the community where the Civil Rights era as we know it today began in America. Experience historically significant events from nationally known writers and speakers. Location and directions: 428 W. Willow St., Scottsboro, Al., 35768
Eric Garner being strangled to death by NYC Police (fair use for non-profit news reporting - photo by Ramsey Orta, video )
A discussion on Race & Police: http://journalistsresource.org/studies/government/criminal-justice/police-reasonable-force-brutality-race-research-review-statistics#
A couple of other takes from Black Folk.
