Sometimes, hate just isn't funny
culturekitchen.com | Dealing with the hate
 | If you can bear it, the photographs are here. They are from the Musarium program, "Without Sanctuary," and they are a documentation of lynchings. Of the "strange fruit" that hangs in trees. Of what happens when the worst in the human psyche is joined with the worst in others, and mobs arise. |
One of the ways that we know about the mobs and the lynchings is that photographs were taken. Photographs were taken, and then they were turned into postcards, which were sent through the U.S. mail. Imagine. The Comstock laws made it illegal to mail erotic or lascivious or contraceptive information using the U.S. postal service, but it was perfectly okay to send trophy shots of what had been done to other human beings by mobs.