Without Sanctuary: Lynching Photography in America

Author: James AllenBrand: Brand: Twin Palms PublishersColor: BlackEdition: Fifteenth Edition, 2021Features: Used Book in Good ConditionBinding: HardcoverNumber Of Pages: 212Release Date: 31-10-1999Part Number: 98 colour, b/w illustrationsDetails: Many people today, despite the evidence, will not believe don't want to believe that such atrocities happened in America not so very long ago. These photographs bear witness to . . . an American holocaust." —Congressman John Lewis 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. Thes