Kevin Boyle, Author at US History Scene

March 23, 2020

GRAPHIC CONTENT WARNING: The Show Must Go On: Prof. Kevin Boyle on the Lynching Photograph of Lynching of Thomas Shipp and Abram Smith – August 7, 1930 in Marion, Indiana

Warning: Graphic Content In compliance with the “Hard Histories” series with the New York Department of Education, we asked OAH Distinguished Lecturer Kevin Boyle to discuss the traumatic and harrowing history of lynching in Jim Crow America by analyzing the infamous lynching photograph taken in Marion, Indiana on August 7, 1930 by studio photographer… MORE