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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
imageIn 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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