News & Events |
December 16, 2021. Retired teacher, author and editor Steve Schlanger wrote an essay, Anatomy of Lynching, on the 1892 murder of William Young in Fluvanna County. In this essay, Dr. Schlanger relies on newspaper accounts and archival sources to examine how the...
Essay, Fluvanna |
By Steven Schlanger Under the cover of darkness, a mob approached the Palmyra jailhouse on the evening of October 11, 1892, at approximately 11 p.m. Roughly twenty men had gathered for the sole purpose of committing murder; a justifiable murder in their minds, and one...
News & Events |
August 5th, 2020. Today the Racial Terror: Lynching in Virginia website has officially migrated to a new domain, with improved graphics and features! Check out the new Data Visualization tab and the expanded database, now including cases as far back as 1866.
Essay, Wise |
By Zoe Crihfield, Tom Costa, Dylan Mabe, Thomas Noble On June 5, 1902, Wiley Guynn, a 28-year-old boarding house proprietor and miner, was arrested for assaulting the twelve-year-old daughter of Franklin Green, a white farmer living in the Tom’s Creek area, just...
News & Events
August 23rd, 2019. Professor Gianluca De Fazio just published an article titled “Improving Lynching Inventories with Local Newspapers: Racial Terror in Virginia, 1877-1927”, in which he discusses some of the findings of the Racial Terror project. The...
