The last lynching

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Explores past incidents of racial violence in the United States and their continuing impact, focusing on Congressman Robert Filner who, as an 18-year-old Freedom Rider, was jailed in Mississippi's ...

Explores past incidents of racial violence in the United States and their continuing impact, focusing on Congressman Robert Filner who, as an 18-year-old Freedom Rider, was jailed in Mississippi's Parchman Prison; Florida schoolteacher Lizzie Jenkins whose grandfather witnessed the lynching of five African Americans in 1916; and Congressman Artur Davis who as a law student worked to hold the Ku Klux Klan accountable for a 1981 lynching in Mobile, Alabama. Notes Barack Obama's presidential nomination as a turning point in American history.

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