Many Americans still live with the pain and legacy of the lynching of their relatives.
"Lynching is the ultimate act of racial terror that resulted in the brutal murders, trauma and terrorism that my cousin Emmett and thousands of innocent black men, women and entire communities of color suffered for hundreds of years," she said.
In the case of Edwards' father, Klansmen killed the 24-year-old man after mistaking him for another black man who supposedly smiled at a white woman or made a pass in racially segregated Montgomery. An FBI review found that the killers kidnapped him off a roadside and forced him to plunge off a bridge into a river.
An untold number of other people also were lynched, but their stories were lost to time or official indifference. Janet Langhart Cohen says those cases include that of her distant cousin Jimmy Gillenwaters, who was lynched in Kentucky in the early 1900s. "He knows what he's doing. He knows how to hurt and divide," said Cohen, who wrote the play"Anne and Emmett" about an imaginary conversation between Till and Holocaust victim Anne Frank.
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