Lynching Postcards: Token of a Great Day | movie | 2021 | Official Trailer - video Dailymotion

This chilling reflection examines the horrific history of lynchings as cultural events and celebrations that included so | dG1fcldNWmxRMjgxZ00

Transcript

00:00 A postcard is an extension of our experience.

00:04 A postcard allows us to continue to relive that experience.

00:10 It also allows us to disseminate that experience.

00:13 Look what I draw pleasure from.

00:16 Lynching postcards were used in the same way.

00:20 Between 1880 and 1968, there's 4,000 lynchings that take place in the United States.

00:28 It is terrorism in its clearest expression.

00:33 This is where they lynched a Negro the other day.

00:34 I bought this in Hopkinsville, 15 cents each.

00:37 This is a token of a great day.

00:41 Anti-lynching activists would draw on photography as evidence.

00:45 So they could somehow shake people out of their complacency and push them to join the

00:50 fight against lynching.

00:51 It's lynching.

00:52 [MUSIC PLAYING]

00:54 (dramatic music)