Gene Brown - lynched today in 1918 in Benhur, Texas. #BlackLivesMatter
Lynched Today
@lynchedtoday.bsky.social
Between 1865 and 1965, thousands were killed simply for the color of their skin. We hang our flag out on the digital 5th Avenue for them. ---- Using historical data to provide an "On this day" accounting of lynchings. Corrections and additions welcomed!
John Black - lynched today in 1906 in Florida. #BlackLivesMatter
Reuben Hudson - lynched today in 1887 in Dekalb County, Georgia. #BlackLivesMatter
George Dorsey - murdered today in 1946 in Monroe, Georgia. #BlackLivesMatter
Mrs. George Dorsey - murdered today in 1946 in Monroe, Georgia. #BlackLivesMatter
Stanley Hayes - lynched today in 1899 in Brandon, Mississippi. #BlackLivesMatter
John Brown - lynched today in 1891 in Jackson, Tennessee. #BlackLivesMatter
George Lewis - lynched today in 1889 in Belen, Texas. #BlackLivesMatter
Mr. Jennings - lynched today in 1919 in Gilmer, Texas. #BlackLivesMatter
William Harris - lynched today in 1905 in Glendora, Mississippi. #BlackLivesMatter
Peter Jenkins - lynched today in 1902 in Elkins, West Virginia. #BlackLivesMatter
Frank Erle - lynched today in 1901 in Vidalia, Georgia. #BlackLivesMatter
Henry Hamilton - lynched today in 1899 in Navasota, Texas. #BlackLivesMatter
John Grange - lynched today in 1891 in Franklin, Kentucky. #BlackLivesMatter
March in Madison from where Corey Ruiz was shot by a Madison police officer to the police department
an ideologically driven effort to destroy an independent institution and replace its serious and broad-minded approach to american history with MAGA slop
Trump Orders Warnings Placed at ‘Inaccurate’ Smithsonian History Museum
President Trump said the signage at the National Museum of American History would correct what a disputed White House report described as “extreme political activism.”
nytimes.com
No bodycam footage in fatal Madison police shooting, because the department doesn’t require cameras.
No bodycam footage in fatal Madison police shooting, because the department doesn’t require cameras
The absence of footage has left residents in the dark about key moments, as officials blame budget concerns and political inertia for the lack of cameras.
nbcnews.com
#tdih 1946: 2 young African American couples were lynched near Moore’s Ford Bridge, 60 miles from Atlanta. 💔Mae Murray & George W. Dorsey (WWII vet), Roger & Dorothy Malcom (7 mos. pregnant) National protests. No prosecution. See "Murder In Black and White" doc by @keithabeauchamp.bsky.social ⬇️
July 25, 1946: Moore’s Ford Bridge Lynching
Two young African American couples — one of the men a WWII veteran — were lynched near the Moore’s Ford Bridge.
zinnedproject.org
happy bday abolitionist Maria Weston Chapman, b.1806, Weymouth, MA. "Let us rise in the moral power of womanhood; and give utterance to the voice of outraged mercy, and insulted justice, and eternal truth, and mighty love and holy freedom."
Henry Bedford - lynched today in 1934 in Pelahatchee, Mississippi. #BlackLivesMatter
Chich Davis - lynched today in 1899 in Wilmot, Arkansas. #BlackLivesMatter
Jack Davis - lynched today in 1897 in Baldwin, Louisiana. #BlackLivesMatter
Thomas Johnson - lynched today in 1895 in Hattiesburg, Mississippi. #BlackLivesMatter
Ovide Belzaire - lynched today in 1895 in Youngsville, Louisiana. #BlackLivesMatter
Poe Hibbler - lynched today in 1917 in Pickens County, Alabama. #BlackLivesMatter
Moony Albert - lynched today in 1903 in Beaumont, Texas. #BlackLivesMatter
Elijah Clark - lynched today in 1900 in Huntsville, Alabama. #BlackLivesMatter
Frank Embree - lynched today in 1899 in Steinmetz, Missouri. #BlackLivesMatter
James Gray - lynched today in 1897 in Golboro, South Carolina. #BlackLivesMatter