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Article: 75 Years Ago, Black Men Were Mere Commodities Who Were Commonly Subject to Public Lynching. Now, a Black Man Has Been Elected President of the United States
- Article from:
- The Journal of Blacks in Higher Education
- Article date:
- October 1, 2008
- Author:
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Three generations ago, the citizens of Indiana and many other states commonly attended puhlic spectacles of lynchings of Negroes. Pictured here is the 1930 lynching of two black men in Marion, Indiana.
This fall, the predominantly white state of Indiana voted to elect a black man president of the United States.
In the 1882 to 1968 period, there were 257 ...