Lynching and spectacle: witnessing racial violence in America, 1890-1940

They want to see the thing done : public executions

A hell of fire upon earth : religion

The spectator has a picture in his mind to remember for a long time : photography

They never witnessed such a melodrama : early moving pictures

With the roar of thunder : The birth of a nation

We wanted to be boosters and not knockers : photography and antilynching activism

Bring home to America what mob violence really means : Hollywood's spectacular indictment.