Voices of the Mahjar: Stories from the Lebanese Diaspora

The Romey Lynchings


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N'oula Romey was the fourth victim of racial terror that year in Florida, and one of ten people who were lynched by white mobs across the US in 1929 alone. He and his wife's tragic murders were not an isolated incident, but a part, and the culmination, of a widespread pattern of racially-motivated hostility, vitriol and physical abuse directed at early Arab immigrants who came to, worked, and lived in America between the 1890s and the 1930s. Watch the documentary: https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLeLZZhoUlWcHO3OPwPEPIY4mXBYY_f0sb
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Voices of the Mahjar: Stories from the Lebanese DiasporaBy Khayrallah Center for Lebanese Diaspora Studies

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