An Era of Racial Terror: Jacksonville's Legacy of Lynching
An Era of Racial Terror: Jacksonville's Legacy of Lynching In-Person
Recent news stories confirm that the United States continues to be haunted by a narrative of racial injustice. After slavery was formally abolished in 1865, racial terror lynching emerged in the late 19th century and continued until the middle of the 20th century as a vicious tool of racial control to reestablish white supremacy and suppress black civil rights. The aftereffects are still with us today. The Museum of Science & History (MOSH) presents a traveling exhibition, An Era of Racial Terror: Jacksonville’s Legacy of Lynching, designed to provide layers of educational and historical context to the racial terror lynchings that violated Duval County in the early twentieth century. 
The traveling exhibition includes eight illustrated text panels that recount the murders of seven black men whose lives were taken by extrajudicial lynch mobs in Duval County between 1909 and 1925. The narratives are based on research by historians Dr. Scott Matthews of Florida State College at Jacksonville and Dr. David Jamison of Edward Waters College. The panels feature archival documents, newspaper headlines, historical photographs and new images of local lynching sites taken by photographer Bill Yates.
An Era of Racial Terror is on display at the UNF Thomas G. Carpenter Library from February 1 through 29. The exhibition is supported in part by a grant from the Community Foundation for Northeast Florida, with special thanks to Baptist Health for additional support. Additional funding was provided through a grant from the Florida Humanities Council with funds from the National Endowment for the Humanities.
- Date:
- Thursday, February 20, 2020 Show more dates
- Time:
- All Day Event
- Time Zone:
- Eastern Time - US & Canada (change)
- Location:
- Carpenter Library, Special Collections Reading Room, First Floor
- Categories:
- Community Outreach Event Faculty Outreach Event Student Outreach Event