Without Sanctuary
Sante Fe: Twin Palms, 2020.
ISBN: 9780944092699
Condition: Fine
Hardcover
Later printing
212 pgs, 98 b&w, 8 x 10 inches
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 crowds in attendance. These images are some of photography's most brutal, surviving to this day so that we may now look back on the terrorism unleashed on America's African-American community and perhaps know our history and ourselves better. Essays by Hilton Als, John Lewis and Leon F. Litwak. Item #20947
Price: $75.00