{"id":48341,"date":"2015-02-11T17:11:37","date_gmt":"2015-02-11T17:11:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/npr_new_report_examines_lynchings_and_their_legacy_in_the_united_states\/"},"modified":"2015-02-11T17:11:37","modified_gmt":"2015-02-11T17:11:37","slug":"npr_new_report_examines_lynchings_and_their_legacy_in_the_united_states","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=48341","title":{"rendered":"(NPR) New Report Examines Lynchings And Their Legacy In The United States"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Nearly 4,000 blacks were lynched in the American South between the end of the Civil War and World War II, according to a new report by the Equal Justice Initiative.<\/p>\n<p>The report, Lynching in America: Confronting the Legacy of Racial Terror, says that the number of victims in the 12 southern states was more than 20 percent higher than previously reported.<\/p>\n<p>Lynchings were part of a system of racial terror designed to subjugate a people, says the Alabama-based nonprofit&#8217;s executive director, Bryan Stevenson.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.npr.org\/blogs\/codeswitch\/2015\/02\/10\/385263536\/new-report-examines-lynchings-and-their-legacy-in-the-united-states\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nearly 4,000 blacks were lynched in the American South between the end of the Civil War and World War II, according to a new report by the Equal Justice Initiative. The report, Lynching in America: Confronting the Legacy of Racial<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=48341\">Read more &#8250;<\/a><\/div>\n<p><!-- end of .read-more --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":794,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[48,39,50,209,438,133,184,120],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-48341","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-christian-life-church-life","category-culture-watch","category-international-news-commentary","category-americau-s-a","category-death-burial-funerals","category-history","category-parish-ministry","category-racerace-relations"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48341","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/794"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=48341"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48341\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=48341"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=48341"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=48341"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}