Research seeks to right American record on lynching
The historic record of lynching in the United States has been hampered in its accuracy by an unreasonably limited definition of the act and a previous refusal to give credence to historic Black news sources and the work of Ida B. Wells and the NAACP lynching investigative files. Aisha Upton-Azzam, assistant professor of sociology at Susquehanna University, is trying to amend this injustice.