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At the Edge of Nation: Lynching Memorials across America
A special presentation by LaTanya S. Autry (SL: Paloma Scribe)
Today, downtown Duluth, Minnesota has the Clayton Jackson McGhie Memorial to recognize the lives of Elias Clayton, Elmer Jackson, and Isaac McGhie - three young African American men lynched by a mob of 5,000 to 10,000 white citizens in 1920. Two walls inscribed with inspirational quotes and a historical account feature figural relief sculptures.Over the past decade or so, community groups across the country have rallied to mark and remember places that were formerly lynching sites, including Waco, Texas, and Tallahatchie County, Mississippi.
This interdisciplinary work is based on field research; review of the local histories, cultural geographies, and memorial development records; interviews with memorial organizers, artists, and local residents; analysis of memorial and corresponding lynching photographs; and a study of landscape as nationalist ideology.
LaTanya S. Autry (Paloma Scribe) is a Ph.D. student in the Art History department at University of Delaware. She studies American art of the late 19th to 21st centuries. LaTanya is particularly drawn to themes involving race, memory, nationalism, modernism, protest, and collaboration. She did her master’s thesis on American lynching postcards. LaTanya received her M.A. in art history at University of Delaware in 2009. She completed her undergraduate studies in art history at the University of Arizona in 2007.
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