Lynching Postcards: Token of a Great Day

A new short film by Christine Turner, presented by Firelight Films in association with MTV Documentary Films.

From 1880 to 1968, over 4,000 African Americans were lynched at the hands of white mobs. Staged as public celebrations akin to picnics or carnivals, these lynchings were commemorated through the printing and distribution of photos and postcards that would ultimately be subverted by Black activists to expose racist violence in the U.S. to the nation’s leaders and to the rest of the world.