Oct 16, 2020
In the 1930s, southerners started to get unconfrontable with lynchings and were getting bad press for not doing anything to stop lynchings. And that is when they did something dramatic. They substituted lynchings for the death penalty. The death penalty became a way to avoid lynchings. On this episode, I tell the...
Apr 20, 2020
Ida B. Wells was at the height of her career. She was a well-established journalist, she had her own newspaper and she was respected by many journalists both black and white. But when three really good friends of hers were lynched, Ida decided to report on lynchings. Due to her reporting, she became a primary target...