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6. Postcards featuring lynchings were pretty common

Tue Aug 18, 2015, 03:51 AM

Aug 2015

I dont think it was anything specific to Leo Frank. Photographers would photograph lynched bodies and sell them to tourists.

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A little known event. Behind the Aegis Aug 2015 #1

His lynching was made into a postcard. Behind the Aegis Aug 2015 #2

Postcards featuring lynchings were pretty common moobu2 Aug 2015 #6

Lynchings and Cop Killings burrowowl Aug 2015 #3

Such a horribly sad, ugly history ismnotwasm Aug 2015 #4

the Jews are the natural allies of black civil rights, ericson00 Aug 2015 #5

I just read about Leo Frank in the Jewish Daily Forward. Little Tich Aug 2015 #8