Hosted by Historic New England Wednesday, April 27, 5:30 p.m. ET Register here Beginning in the late nineteenth century, white supremacists used lynching to terrorize and oppress African Americans. Despite anti-lynching activists’ best efforts, this lethal form of policing Black people continued through the mid-twentieth century, culminating in the 1955 lynching of fourteen-year-old Emmett Till. Dr. … Continue reading Event | An American Horror Story: The History of Racial Terror Lynchings on
