The Jim Crow system of segregated facilities and state-sanctioned repression was held in place by terror, including thousands of lynchings.

Susan Strasser’s presentation, offering about sixty images, some quite disturbing, presents stark evidence of that history and serves as a memorial to those who were murdered and tortured. Marcia Cole will follow, reading her original poetry.

Susan Strasser is an award-winning historian and a Distinguished Lecturer for the Organization of American Historians. She is Richards Professor Emerita of American History at the University of Delaware. For more information about Susan Strasser, visit her website. Sign up to receive her newsletter, view her archive, or access her reading list about lynching.

Marcia E. Cole is passionate about literacy, history and all art forms and believes the arts are particularly effective as teaching tools. A Bitter Suite is a series of poems on lynching written from a very personal perspective in response to a sobering picture seen in her college history textbook. These poems and others can be found in her recently published poetry collection Light in Dark Places: History in Verse. Her second collection is Behold a Ball of Light: History in Verse. Copies are available at Amazon or Politics and Prose.

As always, your donations to the Montgomery County Lynching Memorial Project help us pay for great programs like this.

The Zoom link for the event will be on March 2.

A Double Take on Lynching: Two Compelling Voices

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