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>> my great-grandfather, they were farmers in dodge county georgia, there was some issue with a white man, and at the end of the year, he sent his son, cornelius, into town, they shot him, put him on a horse and sent him back. and we have the death certificate says aged 12, 12 gunshots. >> people who engaged in these terror lynchings, they could've buried the body in the ground, could've tried to hide the violence, that's what you would imagine people would do. they did the opposite, they were proud to engage in this kind of racial terror. that's why hanging was so common. the whole idea was to taunt and to terrorize and to torment african americans. that's why you have to think about this as terrorism. there are thousands who get killed, but there are millions who are victimized. seven black people lynched in screamer alabama in 1888 for drinking from a white man's well. dozens in louisiana because they were protesting their low wages.
tried to hide the violence, that's what you would imagine people would do. they did the opposite, they were proud to engage in this kind of racial terror. that's why hanging was so common. the whole idea was to taunt and to terrorize and to torment african americans. that's why you have to think about this as terrorism. there are thousands who get killed, but there are millions who are victimized. seven black people lynched in screamer alabama in 1888 for drinking from a white man's well. dozens in louisiana because they were protesting their low wages. >> am i crazy for -- when i read these things i'm scared, i feel like that's could've been last week. >> it could've been. >> one, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight, nine. it weighs on you. >> there are so many more, i know from my family story what happened, and he is not here.
tried to hide the violence, that's what you would imagine people would do. they did the opposite, they were proud to engage in this kind of racial terror. that's why hanging was so common. the whole idea was to taunt and to terrorize and to torment african americans. that's why you have to think about this as terrorism. there are thousands who get killed, but there are millions who are victimized. seven black people lynched in screamer alabama in 1888 for drinking from a white man's well. dozens in louisiana because they were protesting their low wages. >> am i crazy for -- when i read these things i'm scared, i feel like that's could've been last week. >> it could've been. >> one, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight, nine. it weighs on you.
were proud to engage in this kind of racial terror. that's why hanging was so common. the whole idea was to taunt and to terrorize and to torment african americans. that's why you have to think about this as terrorism. there are thousands who get killed, but there are millions who are victimized. seven black people lynched in screamer alabama in 1888 for drinking from a white man's well. dozens and louisiana because they were protesting their low wages. >> am i crazy for -- when i read these things i'm scared, i feel like that's could've been last week. >> it could've been. >> one, two, three, four, five,