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Organization providing legal representation to inmates on death row in Alabama, USA
and memorial projects report the last documented lynching occurred in 1911, most specifically on June 27, 1911 and is associated with . That statement sits within a complex and contested archival reco...
research and for Peace and Justice record that has documented victims whose deaths are recognized on national remembrance projects (this figure is cited in EJI and multiple local reports) . Local and ...
George Soros’s Open Society Foundations (OSF) publicly committed a major funding package to racial‑justice work in July 2020, most prominently a pledge split into for Black‑led organizations and for r...
As of the available analyses, there is no authoritative dataset showing “rates of lynching” in the United States for 2025; historical compilations identify , but those figures describe a historical re...
Private-prison “lockup quotas” — contractual minimum‑occupancy or payment guarantees — appear in a large share of examined contracts: In the In the Public Interest (ITPI) analysis of 62 contracts, 65%...
is not a single product but a family of tools that plot where and how race-targeted harm has occurred: contemporary mapped by , and riot maps from the and , and government hate-crime and victimization...
The Lynching Victims Memorial, hosted by , collects names, life-stories and the dates and places of lynchings to acknowledge and memorialize victims of ; it launched online in December 2011 and remain...
interactive site documents and maps them by county . Public reporting and EJI materials in the packet name specific Ohio counties and describe the kinds of records and memorial materials the map links...
funds social-justice work primarily through the , which has given tens of billions to civil-society, human-rights, racial-justice, and civic-engagement groups worldwide; OSF’s public disclosures and m...
The (VRA) was designed to eliminate racially discriminatory devices that blocked minority voting access—literacy tests, poll taxes and the like—and to give tools to police discriminatory election rule...
Research into between 1912 and 1916, using the supplied reporting, shows that primary contemporary newspaper and court-record documentation for that narrow window is sparse in these sources: the clear...
’s history of lynching did not end neatly in 1911; scholars note a cluster of contested incidents through 1916 and disagreement over what counts as a “lynching” complicates the record . Two widely dis...
There is no authoritative dataset in the supplied reporting that measures “lynchings since 2020,” so the question cannot be answered directly from these sources; the available material instead documen...
Rutherford B. Hayes played a consequential role in the formal end of Reconstruction by accepting the political bargain that removed federal military enforcement from the South, a move that directly we...
Civil‑rights organizations played central roles pushing for the Emmett Till Antilynching Act — they helped frame public memory of lynching, lobbied lawmakers, joined coalitions supporting the bill, an...
Public estimates for relocating or restoring Confederate monuments vary widely; the most concrete recent figure in available reporting is about $10 million to restore the Confederate Memorial from Arl...
A range of U.S. organizations — national litigation groups, death‑penalty advocacy networks, survivor‑led groups and local defense clinics — work to free wrongly convicted people from death row; promi...