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Lynching preachers: How black pastors resisted Jim Crow and white pastors incited racial violence

  • Written by Malcolm Brian Foley, PhD Candidate in Religion - Historical Studies, Baylor University
A funeral held in July 1945 for two victims of the Ku Klux Klan, George Dorsey and his sister, Dorothy Dorsey Malcolm, of Walton County, Georgia, held at the Mt. Perry Baptist Church Sunday. Bettman via Getty

White lynch mobs in America murdered at least 4,467 people between 1883 and 1941, hanging, burning, dismembering, garroting and blowtorching...

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