Say Their Names: Finding the Victims of Threatened and Completed Lynchings in the American South
In this talk, Prof. Amy Bailey (Associate Professor of Sociology at the University of Illinois, Chicago) will discuss a collaborative project working to locate census records and other archival documents related to people who were killed or threatened by lynch mobs in the American South between 1882 and 1930. She will outline the project aims and discuss what they have learned so far about who was likely to be targeted, the logic that governed the selection of victims, and whose lives were most at risk.
This talk is co-sponsored by the Department of Sociology, Department of African and African-American Studies, and the Weidenbaum Center on the Economy, Government, and Public Policy at Washington University.