Mamie Kirkland, Witness to an Era of Racial Terror, Dies at 111
She embodied the horrors of the African-American experience — lynchings, riots, the Ku Klux Klan — and worked to ensure that they never slipped from collective memory.
Mamie Kirkland, Witness to an Era of Racial Terror, Dies at 111
She embodied the horrors of the African-American experience — lynchings, riots, the Ku Klux Klan — and worked to ensure that they never slipped from collective memory.