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One family's photo album includes images of a vacation, a wedding anniversary and the lynching of a Black man in Texas

  • Written by Jeffrey L. Littlejohn, Professor of History, Sam Houston State University
One family's photo album includes images of a vacation, a wedding anniversary and the lynching of a Black man in TexasIn this photo from Aug. 20, 1922, Gene Kemp and Mary 'Teddie' Kemp, at left, are seen with two friends.Jeffrey L. Littlejohn

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...

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