Books

A Time of Terror: A Survivor's Story A Time of Terror: A Survivor's Story
James Cameron
Ida B. the Queen: The Extraordinary Life and Legacy of Ida B. Wells
Michelle Duster
https://www.amazon.com/Festival-Violence-Analysis-Lynchings-1882-1930/dp/0252064135/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1498058218&sr=8-1&keywords=A+festival+of+violence%3A+An+analysis+of+Southern+lynchings%2C+1882-1930A festival of violence: An analysis of Southern lynchings, 1882-1930
S. E. Tolnay and E. M. Beck
A Massacre in Memphis: The Race Riot That Shook the Nation One Year After the Civil WarA Massacre in Memphis: The Race Riot That Shook the Nation One Year After the Civil War
Stephen V. Ash
Cover of African Americans Confront Lynching.African Americans Confront Lynching: Strategies of resistance from the Civil War to the Civil Rights Era
C. Waldrep
African Americans in Memphis (Images of America)
Earnestine Lovelle Jenkins
America's Original Sin: Racism, White Privilege, and the Bridge to a New AmericaAmerica's Original Sin: Racism, White Privilege, and the Bridge to a New America
Jim Wallis
American Congo: The African American Freedom Struggle in the Delta
Nan Elizabeth Woodruff
Anatomy of a lynching: The killing of Claude Neal.Anatomy of a Lynching: The killing of Claude Neal.
J. R. McGovern
At the Hands of Persons Unknown: The Lynching of Black America
Philip Dray
https://yalebooks.yale.edu/book/9780300260908/black-artists-americaBlack Artists in America - From the Great Depression to Civil Rights
Earnestine Lovelle Jenkins
https://www.amazon.com/Blood-Root-Racial-Cleansing-America/dp/0393354733/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1528290359&sr=8-1&keywords=blood+at+the+rootBlood at the Root: A Racial Cleansing in America
Patrick Phillips
Blood in Their EyesBlood in Their Eyes
Grif Stockley
Cover of Bullets and Fire.Bullets and Fire: Lyncing and Authority in Arkansas, 1840-1950
Guy Lancaster
https://www.amazon.com/Buried-Bitter-Waters-History-Cleansing/dp/0465036376/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1528467921&sr=8-1&keywords=Buried+in+the+Bitter+Waters%3A+The+hidden+history+of+Racial+Cleansing+in+AmericaBuried in the Bitter Waters: The Hidden History of Racial Cleansing in America
Elliot Jaspin
Democracy Abroad, Lynching at Home: Racial Violence in FloridaDemocracy Abroad, Lynching at Home: Racial Violence in Florida
Tameka Bradley Hobbs
Destined to Witness
Hans-Jurgen Massaquoi
Devil in the Grove: Thurgood Marshall, the Groveland Boys, and the Dawn of a New AmericaDevil in the Grove: Thurgood Marshall, the Groveland Boys, and the Dawn of a New America
Gilbert King
Ethical Complications of Lynching: Ida B. Wells’s Interrogation of American TerrorEthical Complications of Lynching: Ida B. Wells’s Interrogation of American Terror
Angela D. Sims
Evicted!: The Struggle for the Right to Vote
Alice Faye Duncan
Finish the Fight!: The Brave and Revolutionary Women Who Fought for the Right to Vote
Veronica Chambers
https://www.amazon.com/Forgotten-Dead-Violence-Mexicans-1848-1928/dp/0195320352/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1498057805&sr=8-1&keywords=Forgotten+dead%3A+Mob+violence+against+Mexicans+in+the+United+States%2C+1848-1928Forgotten dead: Mob violence against Mexicans in the United States, 1848-1928
W. D. Carrigan and C. Webb
Hanging Bridge: Racial Violence and America's Civil Rights CenturyHanging Bridge: Racial Violence and America's Civil Rights Century
Jason Morgan Ward
Ida From Abroad
Michelle Duster
Ida In Her Own Words
Michelle Duster
https://www.amazon.com/Ida-Sword-Campaign-Against-Lynching/dp/0060797363/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1499890180&sr=8-1&keywords=ida+a+sword+among+lionsIda: A Sword Among Lions: Ida B. Wells and the Campaign Against Lynching
Paula J. Giddings
Just Mercy: A Story of Justice and RedemptionJust Mercy: A Story of Justice and Redemption
Bryan Stevenson
Less Than Human: Why We Demean, Enslave, and Exterminate Others
David Livinstone Smith
Lethal Punishment: Lynchings and Legal Executions in the SouthLethal Punishment: Lynchings and Legal Executions in the South
Dr. Margaret Vandiver (*LSP Member)
Liberty and Union: The Civil War Era and American Constitutionalism
Timothy S. Huebner
Lynched: The Power of Memory in a Culture of TerrorLynched: The Power of Memory in a Culture of Terror
Angela D. Sims
https://www.amazon.com/Lynched-Victims-Southern-Mob-Violence/dp/1469620871/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1498057672&sr=8-1&keywords=lynched+victims+of+mob+violenceLynched: The victims of southern mob violence.
A. K. Bailey and S.E. Tolnay
Lynching and Leisure
Terry Anne Scott
Cover Lynching and Spectacle.Lynching and Spectacle: Witnessing Racial Violence in America
Amy Louise Wood
Cover of Lynching beyond Dixie.Lynching beyond Dixie: American mob violence outside the South.
M. J. Pfeifer
Cover of Lynching in the New South.Lynching in the New South: Georgia and Virginia, 1880-1930.
W. F. Brundage
https://www.amazon.com/My-Grandmothers-Hands-Racialized-Pathway/dp/1942094477My Grandmother's Hands: Racialized Trauma and the Pathway to Mending Our Hearts and Bodies
Resmaa Menakem
https://www.amazon.com/Courthouse-Lawn-Confronting-Lynching-Twenty-first-ebook/dp/B004R1Q73C/ref=sr_1_fkmr0_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1516827135&sr=8-1-fkmr0&keywords=“On+the+Courthouse+Lawn%3A+Confronting+the+Legacy+of+Lynching+in+the+Twenty-first+CenturyOn the Courthouse Lawn: Confronting the Legacy of Lynching in the Twenty-first Century
Sherrilyn Ifill
Post Traumatic Slave Syndrome: America's Legacy of Enduring Injury and HealingPost Traumatic Slave Syndrome: America's Legacy of Enduring Injury and Healing
Joy DeGruy
Race, Representation & Photography in 19th-Century Memphis: From Slavery to Jim Crow
Earnestine Lovelle Jenkins
https://www.amazon.com/Racial-Violence-Kentucky-1865-1940-Lynchings-ebook/dp/B00B5FECWQ/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1498058692&sr=8-1&keywords=Racial+violence+in+Kentucky%2C+1865-1940%3A+Lynchings%2C+Mob+Rule%2C+and+%22Legal+Lynchings%22Racial violence in Kentucky, 1865-1940: Lynchings, Mob Rule, and "Legal Lynchings"
G. C. Wright
Radio Free Dixie: Robert F. Williams and the Roots of Black PowerRadio Free Dixie: Robert F. Williams and the Roots of Black Power
Timothy B. Tyson
https://www.amazon.com/Raising-Racists-Socialization-Children-Directions/dp/0813130018/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1516314331&sr=8-1&keywords=Raising+Racists%3A+The+Socialization+of+White+Children+in+the+Jim++Crow+SouthRaising Racists: The Socialization of White Children in the Jim Crow South (New Directions In Southern History)
Kristina DuRocher Ph.D.
Roots Matter: Healing History, Honoring Heritage, Renewing HopeRoots Matter: Healing History, Honoring Heritage, Renewing Hope
Paula Owen Parker
https://www.amazon.com/Rough-Justice-Lynching-American-1874-1947/dp/025207405X/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1498058076&sr=8-1&keywords=Rough+justice%3A+Lynching+and+American+society%2C+1874-1947.Rough justice: Lynching and American society, 1874-1947.
M. J. Pfeifer
Shelby County's Shame; Story of Big Creek Lynching and Trial
Unknown
Slavery by Another Name: The Re-Enslavement of Black Americans from the Civil War to World War IISlavery by Another Name: The Re-Enslavement of Black Americans from the Civil War to World War II
Douglas A. Blackmon
Tears We Cannot Stop: A Sermon to White AmericaTears We Cannot Stop: A Sermon to White America
Michael Eric Dyson
https://www.amazon.com/Black-Holocaust-Beginners-S-Anderson-ebook/dp/B00JGE4C96/ref=sr_1_2?dchild=1&keywords=black+holocaust&qid=1586820253&sr=8-2The Black Holocaust For Beginners
S. E. Anderson
The Blood of Emmett TillThe Blood of Emmett Till
Timothy B. Tyson
The Color of Law: A Forgotten History of How our Government Segregated AmericaThe Color of Law: A Forgotten History of How our Government Segregated America
Richard Rothstein
The Cross and the Lynching TreeThe Cross and the Lynching Tree
James H. Cone
The Defender: How the Legendary Black Newspaper (the Chicago Defender) Changed America
Ethan Michaeli
https://www.amazon.com/End-American-Lynching-Ashraf-Rushdy/dp/0813552923/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1498058144&sr=8-1&keywords=The+end+of+American+lynching.The End of American Lynching
A. A. Rushdy
The Family TreeThe Family Tree
Karen Branan
The Golden Thirteen: Recollections of the First Black Naval Officers
Paul Stillwell
The Light of Truth: Writings of an Anti-Lynching CrusaderThe Light of Truth: Writings of an Anti-Lynching Crusader
Ida B Wells
The Lyncher in MeThe Lyncher in Me
Warren Read
The Lynching in DuluthThe Lynching in Duluth
Michael Fedo
The Lynching: The Epic Courtroom Battle That Brought Down the KlanThe Lynching: The Epic Courtroom Battle That Brought Down the Klan
Laurence Leamer
https://www.amazon.com/Many-Faces-Judge-Lynch-Extralegal/dp/1403967113/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1498058395&sr=8-1&keywords=The+many+faces+of+Judge+Lynch%3A+Extralegal+violence+and+punishment+in+AmericaThe many faces of Judge Lynch: Extralegal violence and punishment in America
C. Waldrep
The Night is Long but Light Comes in the Morning; Meditations for Racial Healing
Catherine Meeks
Cover of The Penalty For Success.The Penalty For Success: My Father Was Lynched in Lowndes County, Alabama
Josephine Bolling McCall
https://www.amazon.com/Red-Summer-Awakening-Black-America/dp/1250009065/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1504387126&sr=8-1&keywords=The+Red+Summer%3A+The+Summer+of+1919+and+the+Awakening+of+Black+AmericaThe Red Summer: The Summer of 1919 and the Awakening of Black America
Cameron McWhirter
https://www.amazon.com/They-Stole-Him-Out-Jail/dp/1611179378They Stole Him Out of Jail: Willie Earle, South Carolina’s Last Lynching Victim
William B.
Trouble in Mind
Leon F Litwack
https://www.amazon.com/Troubled-Ground-Murder-Lynching-Reckoning/dp/0252077822/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1498331882&sr=8-1&keywords=Claude+A+Clegg+III.Troubled Ground: A Tale of Murder, Lynching, and Reckoning in the New South
Claude A. Clegg III
https://www.amazon.com/Waking-White-Finding-Myself-Story/dp/0991331303/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1498586296&sr=8-1&keywords=waking+up+whiteWaking Up White, and Finding Myself in the Story of Race
Debby Irving
Who Lynched Willie Earle?: Preaching to Confront RacismWho Lynched Willie Earle?: Preaching to Confront Racism
Will Willimon
Without Sanctuary: Lynching Photography in AmericaWithout Sanctuary: Lynching Photography in America
James Allen
https://www.amazon.com/You-Must-Be-North-Southern/dp/1617037230/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1512684412&sr=8-1&keywords=Southern+White+Women+in+the+Memphis+Civil+Rights+Movement+by+Kimberly+K.+LittleYou Must Be from the North: Southern White Women in the Memphis Civil Rights Movement
Kimberly K. Little

Guides to Research on Lynchings

"The Truth is Not Always in Black and White: How the Press Misread the David Walker Family Lynchings"
Melinda Meador
A Brief Guide to Using Newspapers for Research on Cases of Lynching, With Notes on Other Sources - SUMMER 2021
Lynching Sites Project of Memphis (Vandiver, Meador)
STRANGE FRUIT: The Forgotten Lynchings of Northwest Tennessee and Southwestern Kentucky, 1869-1931
Melinda Meador
The Color of Lynching by Lisa D. Cook
Lisa D. Cook
The Racial Violence from Economic Stress Executed on the Kerrville Six by Jenn Bennie
Jennifer S. Bennie
The Trenton Massacre: A Reconstruction Era Lynching In Tennessee
Margaret Vandiver

Reports

Lynching in America: Confronting the Legacy of Racial Terror (EJI)Lynching in America: Confronting the Legacy of Racial Terror
Equal Justice Initiative (EJI)
Lynching in America: Targeting Black Veterans (EJI)Lynching in America: Targeting Black Veterans
Equal Justice Initiative (EJI)

Social Justice Organizations

Arkansas Peace & Justice Memorial Movement
State of Arkansas
BlackPast
Global
Elbert Williams: First to Die
Jim Emison
Jackson-Madison County Community Remembrance Project.Jackson-Madison County Community Remembrance Project
Jackson-Madison County
Maryland Lynching Memorial Project logo.Maryland Lynching Memorial Project
Maryland
Tennesseans for Historical Justice logo.Tennesseans for Historical Justice
Tennessee
The Ed Johnson Project.The Ed Johnson Project
Chattanooga, TN
The Family Tree
Karen Branan
The Mary Turner Project
Valdosta, Ga
We Remember Nashville
Nashville, TN

Videos

How to Research a Historic Marker (part 2)
Jenn Bennie
How to RESEARCH for a Historic Marker | The FIRST Documented Lynching in Memphis
Jenn Bennie
https://www.amazon.com/Ocoee-Legacy-Election-Day-Massacre/dp/B001F8LFU0Ocoee: Legacy of the Election Day Massacre
Sandra Krasa
The Origins of Lynching Culture in the United StatesThe Origins of Lynching Culture in the United States
Facing History and Ourselves

Websites

Lynching in America
Equal Justice Initiative (EJI) in partnership with Google
Monroe Work TodayMonroe Work Today
auut studio
Nothing To See Here: Facing Racial Terror to Heal its Festering Wounds
Cultural Landscape Foundation
The Spaces We Inherit
Oliver Clasper