Lynching Postcards: a harrowing documentary about confronting history - The Guardian

The difficult subject of lynching postcards is tackled in a chilling new short film about dealing with ‘the ugly parts’ of racial history in the US

Christine Turner remembers one of the first lynching postcards she ever saw but it wasnt the horrific burnt corpse of Will Stanley in Temple, Texas, in 1915 depicted on the front that stayed with her… [+6375 chars]

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