Our mission is to ensure the political, educational, social, and economic equality of rights of all persons and to eliminate racial hatred and racial discrimination. Our vision is to ensure a society in which all individuals have equal rights and there is no racial hatred or racial discrimination.
Mission Carroll County Md. NAACP Branch #7014
Our mission is to ensure the political, educational, social, and economic equality of rights of all persons and to eliminate racial hatred and racial discrimination. Our vision is to ensure a society in which all individuals have equal rights and there is no racial hatred or racial discrimination.
The NAACP works to educate all political candidates to support policies that improve access to quality education and economic opportunity, criminal justice reform, the environment, healthcare and youth empowerment, with a dedication to removing race-based hatred and discrimination from society.
For questions or more information, please contact me directly: kevindayhoff@gmail.com Kevin Dayhoff, Carroll County NAACP secretary. Thanks.
NPR: How Black activists used lynching souvenirs to expose American violence
NPR: How Black activists used lynching souvenirs to expose
American violence
Please be aware that although this content comes from NPR –
it is nevertheless really disturbing.
From 1880 to 1968, over 4000 African Americans were lynched
in the United States. Like picnics or parties, lynchings were often
carnival-like events commemorated through photos and postcards. This film tells
the story of how Black activists subverted these souvenirs, which were
celebrations of white supremacy, in the fight against lynching. Executive
produced by Stanley Nelson and Marcia Smith. A Doc NYC Short Shortlist
selection.
February is Black History Month in the U.S., and this year's
theme is Black Health and Wellness. NPR has compiled a list of stories, music
performances, podcasts and other content that chronicles the Black American
experience.
For her new documentary, Lynching Postcards: Token Of A
Great Day, filmmaker Christine Turner examined hundreds of black-and-white
photographs that show how organized these events were and included chilling
messages that shared the experience with those who weren't there. The postcard
above shows the crowd at the lynching of Henry Smith in Paris, Texas, in 1893. Photo
by J.L. Mertins/Library of Congress
Photos showing the lynchings of African Americans in the 19th and
early 20th century are some of the most troubling records of the racist
history of the United States.
But these black-and-white photographs are what filmmaker
Christine Turner chose to focus on for her new documentary, Lynching
Postcards: 'Token Of A Great Day'.
Turner examined hundreds of these pictures and primarily
focused on the ones that people who attended these lynchings sent as postcards
to family and friends.
As the film opens, the first postcard people see is an image
of a Black man hanging from a tree, but it's zoomed in enough that all that can
be seen of him are his dangling feet. The focus then becomes the white men standing
behind him, looking directly at the camera, with some smiling.
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