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Yaa Asantewaa

Ashanti Queen Mother and military leader

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Jan 26, 2026

Which Ohio counties are represented by EJI’s National Memorial for Peace and Justice and what local markers exist in those counties?

in , includes a monument for every U.S. county documented as the site of racial terror lynchings; those county-plates and duplicate markers are intended to be claimed by local communities as part of ....

Jan 22, 2026

What archival methods do historians use to reconcile differing counts of lynchings in northern states like Ohio?

Historians reconcile divergent lynching counts through a mix of definitional rigor, triangulation of archival sources, and collaborative databases that flag inconclusive cases; these methods explain w...

Jan 22, 2026

What local Ohio incidents after 1911 have been proposed as lynchings and how have historians evaluated those claims?

’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...

Dec 8, 2025

What led to the Coast Guard noose incident and who was involved?

The controversy began after a November 2025 Coast Guard policy document published language that recast swastikas, nooses and similar imagery as “potentially divisive” rather than expressly labeling th...