July 12, 2002

The Awful Truth

By DANNY POSTEL

A photography exhibition unearths the painful history of lynching in America

On a warm June day here at the Martin Luther King Jr. National Historic Site,

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currently home to a much-discussed exhibit on the history of lynching in America, an elderly man began crying,

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