America’s lynching of Black Americans was often accompanied by public burnings of Black people too. In her autobiography, “Crusade for Justice,” Ida B. Wells discusses lynch mobs burning black people alive. This is what she had to say about a Black man who had been falsely accused of a crime, and subsequently burned to death: […]
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By Elsie Law
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