The Audience: The Lynching Postcards America Mailed Home
Viewer advisory: this documentary contains unaltered historical photographs of lynchings. It is presented for education and historical commentary. Between 1877 and 1950, thousands of Black Americans were lynched in public - in front of crowds of thousands who posed for the camera, bought the photographs as postcards, and mailed them home. This film is about those crowds. It covers three documented spectacle lynchings - Waco, Texas (1916), Duluth, Minnesota (1920), and Marion,

Ronnie Cromer, Jr.
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