Timothy B. Tyson - BLOOD DONE SIGN MY NAME

Nate Parker - THE BIRTH OF A NATION - Nat Turner and the Making of A Movement

Jennifer Ritterhouse - Growing Up Jim Crow - How Black and White Southern Children Learned Race

Richard Wormser - The Rise and Fall of Jim Crow

Howard Kester - REVOLT Among The Sharecroppers

Bryan Wagner - Disturbing the Peace - Black Culture and the Police Power after Slavery

Gregory A Freeman - Lay This Body Down - The 1921 Murders of Eleven Plantation Slaves

Melton A. McLaurin - Celia, A Slave

Danny Smith & Bill Hampson - The Blood and The Blues

David M. Oshinsky - Worse Than Slavery - Parchman Farm and the Ordeal of Jim Crow Justice

James Oliver Horton & Lois E. Horton - SLAVERY And The Making Of America

L. Maria Child - The Freedmen`s Book

Andrew Ward - The Slaves War - The Civil War in the Words of Former Slaves

Solomon Northup ZWÖLF JAHRE ALS SKLAVE

Richard Wright - 12 Million Black Voices

Leon F Litwack - Trouble in Mind - Black Southerns in the Age of Jim Crow

Alan Govenar & Shane W.Evans - Osceola Memories of a Sharecropper`s Daughter

Charles L. Perdue Jr,Thomas E. Barden, Robert K. Phillips - Weevils In The Wheat - Interviews with Virginia Ex-Slaves

James Allen, Hilton Als, Congressman John Lewis, Leon F. Litwack - Without Sanctuary - Lynching Photography In America

Without Sanctuary
Essays by Hilton Als, John Lewis, and Leon F. Litwack. Edited by James Allen 

The Tuskegee Institute records the lynching of 3,436 blacks between 1882 and 1950. This is probably a small percentage of these murders, which were seldom reported, and led to the creation of the NAACP in 1909, an organization dedicated to passing federal anti-lynching laws. Through all this terror and carnage someone-many times a professional photographer-carried a camera and took pictures of the events. These lynching photographs were often made into postcards and sold as souvenirs to the crowds in attendance. These images are some of photography's most brutal, surviving to this day so that we may now look back on the terrorism unleashed on America's African-American community and perhaps know our history and ourselves better. The almost one hundred images reproduced here are a testament to the camera's ability to make us remember what we often choose to forget.

Many people today, despite the evidence, will not believe-don't want to believe-that such atrocities happened in America not so very long ago. These photographs bear witness to ...an American holocaust.
- Congressman John Lewis, from his Introduction

Without Sanctuary is a great and terrible book. It's an album of peacetime atrocities, during which hundreds of Kodak's clicked.
- Richard Lacayo, Time

Belinda Hurmence - Slavery Time When I Was Chillun