Web“Lynching goes unpunished in Virginia because, deny it as one will, it commands a certain social sanction,” wrote Jaffé, who won a Pulitzer Prize for editorial writing in 1929. Byrd … http://www.quailbellmagazine.com/the-real/history-lynching-in-virginia

Raymond Byrd: After decades of silence, how one man is…

WebIn this episode we tell the story of Raymond Byrd who was murdered by a lynch mob on August 15th, 1926 and how his death led to Virginia's Anti-Lynching Law. To listen please … WebDec 29, 2010 · The August 1926 lynching of my second cousin twice removed, Raymond Arthur Byrd, remains one of my most-read posts. Every week. Thanks to Google Analytics, I've been able to monitor the reach with posts relating to Raymond's story. It doesn't surprise me that Black History/Studies academics have read it. I can gauge this from all of the … the radford famiy

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WebPreston Mitchell the Co-Chair of the Wise County/City of Norton Community Remembrance Coalition spoke about the lynching of Woods saying, "this lynching, and the lynching of … WebByrd’s ascension to the national political stage was based in part on his reputation as the architect of the nation’s strictest anti-lynching law. Virginia had experienced a spate of lynchings in the 1920s, including two particularly vicious incidents while Byrd was governor–the Raymond Bird case in 1926 and the Leonard Woods case WebJohnson listened. He was a mentor to Simmons, but had only told him so much about the August 1926 lynching of a black man named Raymond Byrd by a white mob in Wytheville. … sign on to my pnc personal checking