Stories of Appalachia

Appalachia And The First Anti-Lynching Law


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Wise County, Virginia, saw very little racial violence after the Civil War. In fact, up until 1927, there were only three known cases of death by lynching in this southwestern Virginia county. But those three, each one more violent than the one before, led to the passage in Virginia of the first anti-lynching law in the former Confederacy. Today we tell that story. Thanks for watching...
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Stories of AppalachiaBy Steve Gilly, Rod Mullins

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