A family's photo album: Vacation photos, wedding anniversary photos, lynched black man photos

[ck4829]

As a historian and director of the Lynching in Texas project, which has documented more than 600 racial terror lynchings, I receive regular emails from journalists, scholars and activists who want to discuss the history of racial violence.

My conversations with reporters and historians did not prepare me for one of the emails I received last winter. The writer, a Chicago memorabilia dealer, offered to mail me a photo album that included a picture from a Texas lynching.

I responded that I would appreciate the opportunity to review the album and to help identify the victim.

It read: “Burning of negro in front of old City Hall, Waco, Texas.”

https://www.yahoo.com/news/one-familys-photo-album-includes-122833877.html

[Kid Berwyn]

1. White Thinking

From OP, The Conversation:

Excerpt…

Why would she take her photos out of chronological sequence and place the lynching picture as the first photo in the album?

The answers to these questions reveal a great deal about Texas just 100 years ago.

In my view, the album exposes the priority that Anglo Texans – even new arrivals to the state – placed on white supremacy and Black subjugation.

Continues…

https://www.yahoo.com/news/one-familys-photo-album-includes-122833877.html

[WhiskeyGrinder]

2. .

Why would an educated white woman from Pennsylvania include a picture of a Black lynching victim in a personal photo album?

Lol why wouldn't she? White women are some of the most important footsoldiers in upholding white supremacy, then and now.

[cally]

3. Difficult but a must read

I had no idea of the acceptance of black lynching n Texas

[Solly Mack]

4. K&R

[dalton99a]

5. Kick

[msfiddlestix]

8. ✔️

I wish I could decipher the handwriting. it's worse than my current handwriting which is saying a lot. Added to the problem of low vision issues... I can just make out a few words here and there.

Do you know if this has been transcribed into a print copy?

[Arkansas Granny]

6. During WW2 my mother moved from Minneapolis. MN, to Fort Worth, TX, to work in defense plants.

Her encounters with Jim Crow laws in Texas horrified her and she told us kids about those experiences as we were growing up.

She learned that a black man had to step off the sidewalk into the gutter if he met a white woman while walking on the street. She learned that a black person had to sit in the back of the bus and give up their seat to a white passenger on demand. She never spoke of violence or lynching, but I'm sure she heard of them even if she didn't actually witness it.

She drilled it into our heads from the time we were small that this kind of behavior was wrong and it may be one of the most important lessons she ever taught us.

[packman]

7. More of that CRT nonsense?

You know, the stuff they teach in school to upset students about American history?