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Two Unreconciled Strivings

African American baseball players of Morris Brown College, with boy and another man standing at door, Atlanta, Georgia Violence

Lynching victim George Meadows, described as a "murderer & rapist," circa 1889.

Photographs of lynching victims were often circulated as souvenirs of an event meant to terrorize African-Americans into submission.

Photo of lynching victim

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