This chilling reflection examines the horrific history of lynchings as cultural events and celebrations that included so | dG1fcldNWmxRMjgxZ00
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00:00 A postcard is an extension of our experience.
00:04 A postcard allows us to continue to relive that experience.
00:10 It also allows us to disseminate that experience.
00:13 Look what I draw pleasure from.
00:16 Lynching postcards were used in the same way.
00:20 Between 1880 and 1968, there's 4,000 lynchings that take place in the United States.
00:28 It is terrorism in its clearest expression.
00:33 This is where they lynched a Negro the other day.
00:34 I bought this in Hopkinsville, 15 cents each.
00:37 This is a token of a great day.
00:41 Anti-lynching activists would draw on photography as evidence.
00:45 So they could somehow shake people out of their complacency and push them to join the
00:50 fight against lynching.
00:51 It's lynching.
00:52 [MUSIC PLAYING]
00:54 (dramatic music)