Bring It On! – June 27, 2022: Lynchings in Indiana

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In today’s edition of Bring It On!, hosts, Clarence Boone and Liz Mitchell spend the hour with Leon Bates, who is a Ph.D. candidate in the Department of Pan African Studies, at the University of Louisville, KY. He focuses on Urban History (i.e. Education, Housing, Labor, Medicine, Policing, Violence), and the Intersection of Race. Mr. Bates has conducted extensive research on Racialized Violence. In particular, he has focused on lynchings in Indiana.

Officially, Indiana has 21 cases of reported lynching, and one lynching survivor, James Cameron, Jr. In the 1940s he would late found three chapters of the NAACP and later served as Indiana’s State Director of the Office of Civil Liberties. In 1988, he also founded America’s Black Holocaust Museum in Milwaukee. Cameron is the only known survivor of a lynching attempt in the United States.

Credits:
Today’s hosts are Clarence Boone and Liz Mitchell.
Bring It On’s Executive Producer is Clarence Boone.
Tonight’s Assistant Producer is Liz Mitchell.
Show Consultant and WFHB News Department Director is Kade Young.
Program Engineer is Chantalle LaFontant.
The original theme music was created by Jamyl Efiom, with additional background tracks by David Baker.