Lynching Postcards: 'Token of a Great Day'

Name: Lynching Postcards: 'Token of a Great Day'
Director: Christine Turner
Genre: Documentary, History, Short, Crime
Released: 2021-10-01
Duration: 900 s
Cast: Yohuru Williams, Terry Anne Scott, Leigh Raiford

Directed by Christine Turner

TV-MA

2021 15m[Documentary](/on-demand/category/documentary), [History](/on-demand/category/history)

7.58.0

During 1880-1968 over 4,000 African Americans were lynched at the hands of white mobs. These lynchings were commemorated through souvenir postcards that would ultimately be subverted by Black activists to expose racist violence in the U.S.