This is a photograph from a book called ‘Without Sanctuary: Lynching Photography ins America” (pub. 2004). The photo is called ‘The lynching of Frank Embree, July 22, 1899, Fayette, MO”
There were Human Zoos on display in Europe and America from the 1870’s to the 1950’s. These public exhibits of humans, often called Negro Villages, usually showed indigenous people in a so-called natural or primitive state. Above is a photo from Amsterdam Holland around 1890, of an African child in one of these Human Zoo exhibits,being fed like an animal by white spectators.
“Lawrenceville Lynching”(1911) Lawrenceville,April 7,1911. Lynching of Charlie Hale,a black man,on the courthouse square at the corner of Perry and Pike Streets. Note the sign hanging from his toes:“Please do not wake him.”At far left is Jack Mathis,and the boy is Herbert Strayhorn.
Ku Klux Klan initiation 1924, Mississippi. In the 1920s the lynching of Black people was one of the periods of time when the lynching & killing of Black people,male & female, was at all time high. The popular song "Strange Fruit" referred to the many lynched black men & woman found hanging from trees, some of them burnt.
Dr. H.W. Evans, Imperial Wizard of the Ku Klux Klan, Leading His Knights of the Klan in the Parade Held in Washington, D.C. The three million members of the Klan after WWI were quite open in their activities. Many were small-business owners, independent professionals, clerical workers, and farmers. Members marched in parades, patronized Klan merchants, and voted for Klan-endorsed political candidates. The Klan was particularly strong in the Deep South, Oklahoma, and Indiana. Year: 1926
“Race mixing is communist!” The citizens of Little Rock, USA protest the desegregation of their schools, July 1957.
Dorothy Counts braves taunts to become the first black student to attend Harding High School in Charlotte, North Carolina, September 4, 1957.
Dorothy Counts, being jeered and taunted by her white, male peers. She was the first black girl to attend an all white school in the United States.
Imagem rara e clara de uma demonstração de racismo nos Estados Unidos. Na foto, James Brock (o gerente de hotel Monson Motor Lodge) derrama ácido na piscina enquanto pessoas negras nadam, 1964. Ele joga ácido muriático (clorídrico), utilizado para retirar manchas, na piscina reservada unicamente para brancos após um grupo de manifestantes negros pularem nela. Também na piscina estava o policial Henry Billitz para retirar as pessoas da água. Após o incidente, o nome de James e a foto rodaram o mundo, chocando muitas pessoas.
Black civil rights demonstrators attacked by police water hose. Birmingham, Alabama May 1963.
Einstein, when he arrived in America, was shocked at how Black Americans were treated. “There is separation of colored people from white people in the United States," he said. "That separation is not a disease of colored people. It is a disease of white people. And, I do not intend to be quiet about it.” And, he wasn't.