Black Voices Book Group

During the July and August meetings the group will discuss, “Ida: A Sword Among Lions: Ida B. Wells and the Campaign Against Lynching” by Paula J. Giddings. All are welcome. This group meets via Google Meet which works best using the Chrome internet...

Black Voices Book Group

During the July and August meetings the group will discuss, “Ida: A Sword Among Lions: Ida B. Wells and the Campaign Against Lynching” by Paula J. Giddings. All are welcome. This group meets via Google Meet which works best using the Chrome internet...

The Economics of Lynching in Memphis

Fifty years after Martin Luther King’s assassination in Memphis, Martha Park gives examples of lynchings of African Americans in that city at the end of the nineteenth century, illustrating how “[b]eing too rich or too poor could have fatal consequences for...