Printing Hate

Memorials to lynching victims challenge who writes nation’s history

Confederate monument stands at site of 1922 Arkansas lynching

A lynching countenanced by the white press and church

Some Protestant churches welcomed revival of the Ku Klux Klan

Robert Vann’s Pittsburgh Courier set a pattern for what the Black press could do

Freedom’s Journal marked the beginning of the Black press

Simeon Booker among Black chroniclers of civil rights-era atrocities

Black journalist Alexander M. Rivera, who covered Willie Earle lynching trial, recalls tension, fear

NAACP head Walter White was a pioneering Black journalist

Frederick Douglass founded newspapers to allow Black writers to tell their own stories