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Without Sanctuary: Lynching Photography in Americaby Twin Palms Publishers
Synopses & ReviewsPublisher Comments:The Tuskegee Institute records the lynching of 3,436 blacks between 1882 and 1950. This is probably a small percentage of these murders, which were seldom reported, and led to the creation of the NAACP in 1909, an organization dedicated to passing federal anti-lynching laws. Through all this terror and carnage someone — many times a professional photographer — carried a camera and took pictures of the events. These lynching photographs were often made into postcards and sold as souvenirs to the crowds in attendance. These images are some of photography's most brutal, surviving to this day so that we may now look back on the terrorism unleashed on America's African-American community and perhaps know our history and ourselves better. The almost one hundred images reproduced here are a testament to the camera's ability to make us remember what we often choose to forget. Book News Annotation:These pictures are shocking visual testimony to the unspeakable
ferocity of violence against blacks in this country in the
not-too-distant past. The photos are part of the Allen/Littlefield
Collection and are on deposit in the Special Collections Department,
Robert W. Woodruff Library, Emory University. James Allen provides
notes on the content and context of the photos; Congressman John
Lewis provides a foreword; writers Leon F. Litwack and Hilton Als
contribute commentary.
Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com) Table of ContentsForeword / John Lewis — Hellhounds / Leon F. Litwack — GWTW / Hilton Als — Plates — Notes on the plates / James Allen — Afterword / James Allen — Selected bibliography. What Our Readers Are SayingAdd a comment for a chance to win!
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