NYC Gallery Shows Lynching Photos

By Azad January 15, 2000 1:38 PM

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Excerpt from Pyle (AP): NEW YORK (AP) ? Once upon a time in America, mobs dragged people out of jails or off the streets and hanged them from the nearest tree.?Sometimes they burned them alive.?Then, often as not, members of the mob lined up to be photographed with the deceased.?Dozens of these sobering pictures? some of them turned into postcards that were occasionally used as warnings ? have been put on public display today at a Manhattan gallery.?There are photos of corpses of young black men hanging from branches, telephone poles and, in one case, a bridge.?There is a shot of a man being incinerated and another of "the half-burned head of James" on a pole.?The material was gathered over the past decade by James Allen, a Georgia-based dealer in antiques and memorabilia, and are now part of the Allen-Littlefield Collection at Emory University in Atlanta.?Read more.

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