News Snapshot:
Lynch the n—,” someone shouted. There wasn’t one to be seen, but someone tied a clothesline to a lamp post in New York’s Tenderloin district, just in case. “Every car passing up or down Eighth Avenue between the hours of 8 and 11,” The New York Times reported in August 1900, “was stopped by the crowd, and every n— on board was dragged out, hustled about, and beaten until he was able to break away.” Local police soon arrived—but made “little or no attempt to arrest the assailants”. Today, somewhat less-familiar images of America’s far-Right are beginning to emerge. Inside...
