Lynching of Thomas Shipp and Abram Smith, Marion, Indiana,
August 7, 1930.
(NPR)
EXPOSING THE UNSPOKEN TRUTH: IDA B. WELLS
EXPOSING THE UNSPOKEN TRUTH:
IDA B. WELLS
Shuning Liang, Eve Lin, Jessica Lin, May Xu, Michele Yi
Group Website
Senior Division
Word Count: 1200
Multimedia Length: 3 minutes 58 seconds
Process Paper Word Count: 494
“Brave men do not gather by thousands to torture and murder a single individual, so gagged and bound he cannot make even feeble resistance or defense.”
~ Ida. B Wells
Strange Fruit
This song was written by Moropol to protest against the on-going lynching and racism
Singer: Billie Holiday
L. Horgan, Jr., Birmingham. George Meadows,
murderer & rapist, lynched on
scene of his last crime. 1889.
(Library of Congress)
The burning of William Brown, Omaha, Neb., Sept. 28, 1919
- (Library of Congress)
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