USA : Faire l'histoire des lynchages

History of Lynchings in the South Documents Nearly 4 000 Names, the NY Times 10.02.2015
http://www.nytimes.com/2015/02/10/us/history-of-lynchings-in-the-south-documents-nearly-4000-names.html

Un article de Campbell Robertson dans le New York Times (10.02.2015) décrit la double démarche de Bryan Stevenson :
- Etablir une liste (3959 victimes de lynchages dans 12 états du Sud des USA entre 1877 et 1950).
- « Select lynching sites where the organization plans to erect markers and memorials »

Stevenson considère ceux qui ont quitté ces Etats comme des réfugiés fuyant le racisme et le terrorisme. « Lynching and the terror era shaped the geography, politics, economics and social characteristics of being black in America during the 20th century ».

Des listes ont été établies dès 1882 dans The Chicago Tribune, depuis 1912 par The Tuskegee Institute,
en 1919 par le N.A.A.C.P, en 1995 par les sociologues Stewart Tolnay and E. M. Beck.
Leurs travaux de ces derniers sont cités dans l’article dans la Wikipédia en anglais
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lynching_in_the_United_States

dont E.M. Beck, and S.E. Tolnay, "The killing fields of the deep south: the market for cotton and the lynching of blacks, 1882-1930", American Sociological Review, 1990

Bryan Stevenson a fondé the Equal Justice Initiative in Montgomery, Alabama
http://www.eji.org/
http://www.ted.com/talks/bryan_stevenson_we_need_to_talk_about_an_injustice?language=fr


Bryan Stevenson a fondé the Equal Justice Initiative (Montgomery, Alabama)
https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bryan_Stevenson
The Equal Justice Initiative is fighting poverty and challenging racial discrimination in the criminal justice system
http://www.eji.org/
http://www.ted.com/talks/bryan_stevenson_we_need_to_talk_about_an_injustice?language=fr

- Voir la carte des victimes (1882-1968) sur le site de la Tuskegee University (N de Montgomery)
sur la page de l'histgeobox  : Billie Holiday « Strange fruit » (1939)
http://lhistgeobox.blogspot.fr/2013/07/billie-holiday-strange-fruit-1939.html

- Jails Have Become Warehouses for the Poor, Ill and Addicted, a Report Says, NY Times, 11.02.2015
http://www.nytimes.com/2015/02/11/us/jails-have-become-warehouses-for-the-poor-ill-and-addicted-a-report-says.html

« Incarceration’s Front Door: The Misuse of Jails in America » a report from the Vera Institute of Justice found that the majority of those incarcerated in local and county jails are there for minor violations, including driving with suspended licenses, shoplifting or evading subway fares, and have been jailed for longer periods of time over the past 30 years because they are unable to pay court-imposed costs ».

rappel : David Dufresne, Prison Valley http://clioweb.canalblog.com/tag/prisonvalley

.
..