The NAACP’s Anti-Lynching Struggle with Megan Ming Francis
The Dig
Daniel Denvir
4.8 • 1.7K Ratings
🗓️ 22 November 2020
⏱️ 116 minutes
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Dan interviews political scientist Megan Ming Francis about the NAACP’s struggle against racist violence in the teens and 20s and how it remade the criminal justice system and the civil rights movement alike.
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| 1:50.2 | The struggle against racist violence has defined this year, as it has defined much of the Black freedom struggle, all the way back to the NACP's foundation in 1909. The NWACP's remarkable fight against |
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