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How a Chattanooga Lynching Set a Supreme Court Precedent Involving the Bill of Rights
In this interview, I’m speaking with Illinois State University historian Dr. Amy Wood about the legacy of lynching in the South and a Chattanooga tragedy that went all the way to the U.S. Supreme Court. Dr. Wood is the author of Lynching and Spectacle: Witnessing Racial Violence in America, 1890-1940. She visited the University of Tennessee at Chattanooga recently to talk about Ed Johnson, a black man falsely accused of raping a white woman in 1906. Johnson was lynched on the Walnut Street
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In this interview, I’m speaking with Illinois State University historian Dr. Amy Wood about the legacy of lynching in the South and a Chattanooga tragedy that went all the way to the U.S. Supreme Court. Dr. Wood is the author of Lynching and Spectacle: Witnessing Racial Violence in America, 1890-1940. She visited the University of Tennessee at Chattanooga recently to talk about Ed Johnson, a black man falsely accused of raping a white woman in 1906. Johnson was lynched on the Walnut Street