C., on June 13 at a news conference with Senate sponsors of the resolution as well as survivors and family members of lynching victims.

The hacking off of fingers and other body parts for souvenirs reads like some ghoulish detail of a horror novel. Bringing those photographs to light, and showing us the faces had a really important value,” she said. The best people the country, as good as there are anywhere, met there and hanged Curl without a hint of rowdyism. She grew up on the South Side of Chicago, reading and writing constantly from a young age, her talent lovingly nurtured by her parents.The whole thing goes with the theme opened up by Rod Dreher, Bill Moyers, and the James Cone book shown on my goodreads site.

There were lynchings in the Midwestern and Western states, mostly of Asians, Mexicans, Native Americans and even whites. Ordinary people, ordinary children, ordinary crowds, ordinary postcards, but when we look back at them now, they have the power to, as Allen says, “turn the living to pillars of salt. If anyone could possibly become numb to the almost-unspeakably violent images, it’s Allen, who compiled his work into “Without Sanctuary,” a traveling exhibit and later a book that brought lynching and lynching photography into the public consciousness in a way it never been had before. Forces whites to get out of dry drunk addict denial when they look at and read the captions of this very important book.The collection includes images of the lynching in 1911 of Laura and Lawrence Nelson, in Okemah, Oklahoma, and of Leo Frank in 1915 near Marietta, Georgia. Lynching – murder with public sanction and political backing – pits the powerful against the powerless; pits a teeming mob against individual bodies, where regardless of guilt or innocence, those bodies stand not a chance. I'm a white man, so I cannot pretend to understand the sort of horrors that minorities have faced throughout history in America. Cole Blease recerived a finger of a lynched black man in the mail and promptly planted it in the gubernatorial garden. In short, Allen’s collection of photographs reveals lynching postcards to be racial pornography of the most extreme sort, equivalent to stills from racial snuff films.

This blood-thirsty chapter in American history is underexposed and perhaps in this new century we can talk more about it in a diplomatic way.A Tiktok creator mentioned this book by name as notable photographic evidence of events in the timeline of human history that most would prefer to forget. It is a collection of over 91 such postcards that forms the crux of Without Sanctuary, framed by moving and profound essays by collector James Allen, historian Leon F Litwack, Congressman and civil rights legend John Lewis, and New Yorker critic Hilton Als. Spoiler must of the time in the book you will se white people smiling while the brothas are bieng hanged, that should tell you something!