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Nov 5, 2012 · “Without Sanctuary” deposes several key myths held about lynching, including that it only happened to men, only in the South, and that the victim had definitely committed a crime. “Without Sanctuary” shows lynchings were not confined to a period, place or race, although 70 percent of the 4,700 people lynched between 1882-1968 were ...
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Look more closely at the photograph, if you can, and something more terrifying still emerges. See the crowd all decked out? The men and women in their Sunday best? The dark-haired lady in her printed dress? The man pointing up at the body in the tree? These are the crowds that would routinely come to view and participate in the lynchings of the tim...
It is a collection of over 91 such postcards that forms the crux of Without Sanctuary, framed by moving and profound essays by collector James Allen, historian Leon F Litwack, Congressman and civil rights legend John Lewis, and New Yorkercritic Hilton Als. Each of these essays tells a different story, offering differing perspectives. Als, in a sear...
Ordinary people, ordinary children, ordinary crowds, ordinary postcards, but when we look back at them now, they have the power to, as Allen says, “turn the living to pillars of salt.” Looking at this picture, looking at the rest of the pictures in the book if we ever do (something that most of us will never do, something that only some of us shoul...
Is this a place we could go, or a place we have already been? Perhaps over the past years some of us have wondered how a 14-year-old child could stand to film a murder as it was being committed by his uncle, and make of it a viral video on WhatsApp? Or how people could take selfies next to a bound-up adivasi man before he was beaten to death? Witho...
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This would not have happened without the participation of all branches of government. GROSS: There's one photograph from January of 1916, the lynching of John Richards. And Richards is hanging ...
Despite the horror of the images within, this book will forever change your understanding of our past. From Kristina's list on understanding racial violence in the South after the Civil War . Want books like Without Sanctuary? Our community of 11,000+ authors has personally recommended 100 books like Without Sanctuary.
Feb 1, 2000 · 1 book17 followers. James Allen is an American antique collector, known in particular for his collection of 145 photographs of lynchings in America, published in 2000 with Jon Lewis as Without Sanctuary: Lynching Photography in America. The collection includes images of the lynching in 1911 of Laura and Lawrence Nelson, in Okemah, Oklahoma, and ...
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Apr 25, 2018 · The first lynching photo Allen saw, sometime around 1982, was a postcard-sized image of Leo Frank, wrongfully convicted of the murder of Mary Phagan, a 13-year-old worker in the Atlanta pencil ...
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Nov 1, 1999 · Without Sanctuary preserves these harrowing, death-marked depictions, saving them so that we may recognize the terrorism unleashed on America’s African American community. Editor James Allen, an American antique collector, includes nearly 100 images of lynchings in America from his own collection, including battleground cases such as the 1911 ...
