Lynching sites remain alive as present-day property-based harms for black families

Evidence

Even the simple act of going for a run can cost you your life when you are black in America. In truth, we never closed the book on that chapter of our history. … While Ahmaud Arbery’s family may have found some peace with the conviction of his murderers, countless other black families like the Mosses, who fled Tennessee because Tommie Moss was lynched; the Brinsons, who fled Missouri because of racial violence and were forced to sell their home for a fraction of the value; the Hilsons, who fell prey to whitecapping in Mississippi; the Walkers, who were murdered in Kentucky and lost their farm; the Crawfords, who lost their farm in South Carolina after Anthony was lynched; and the Stephens brothers, who fled Mississippi and eventually lost their home, are still waiting to see justice served. — Dorothy A. Brown, Getting to Reparations, 439

Categorization

• XREF: Concrete lynching-followed-by-property-loss cases directly support the ADDENDUM essay ‘On Sacrifice’ comparison territory and build the harm catalog for the reparations case. — connects to: Anti-black violence persisted past lynching’s peak as land grabs — Dorothy A. Brown, Getting to Reparations: How Building a…, 309; Lynching inflicts harms that descend across generations — Dorothy A. Brown, Getting to Reparations: How Building a…, 914; States with more historical lynchings have higher poverty today — Dorothy A. Brown, Getting to Reparations: How Building a…, 432 (+5 more)
• yield-rescued: below the book’s yield-target cutoff, included anyway for connecting to: Anti-black violence persisted past lynching’s peak as land grabs — Dorothy A. Brown, Getting to Reparations: How Building a…, 309; Lynching inflicts harms that descend across generations — Dorothy A. Brown, Getting to Reparations: How Building a…, 914; States with more historical lynchings have higher poverty today — Dorothy A. Brown, Getting to Reparations: How Building a…, 432 (+5 more)