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[Also: Propaganda's 'Crooked' Balances Raw Humility with Prophetic Fire] Also: Propaganda's 'Crooked' Balances Raw Humility with Prophetic Fire | [View online]( [Donate]( [Christianity Today Direct Newsletter]( Wednesday, August 16, 2017 COVER STORY [Facing Our Legacy of Lynching]( How a memorial could help lead America — and Christians — to repentance from a dark history. D. L. Mayfield More than 4,000 African Americans were lynched between 1877 and the rise of the civil rights movement in the early 1950s. Lynching was a brutal public tactic for maintaining white supremacy, frequently used with the tacit blessing of government authorities. It was a part of my heritage I had never been taught, despite my homeschool community's heavy focus on American history and despite brave efforts by activists like Ida B. Wells, perhaps the 19th century's most famous anti-lynching voice, to draw attention to the epidemic. 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