| Exhibition Review | The Journal of American History, 89.3

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Exhibition Review

"Without Sanctuary: Lynching Photography in America." Photographs from the Allen-Littlefield Collection, Special Collections, Robert W. Woodruff Library, Emory University, Atlanta, GA 30322-2870.

Four somewhat different exhibitions (listed below) have presented photographs from the collection, which is on loan to Emory University. The owners of the collection made the decisions for the first three. A university-wide committee at Emory, chaired by William M. Chace, president, was instrumental in making the Atlanta exhibition possible. The Atlanta exhibition, which is still up, is reviewed here.

Temporary exhibition, "Witness: Photographs of Lynchings from the Collection of James Allen and John Littlefield." Jan. 13–Feb. 12, 2000, Roth Horowitz Gallery, New York, N.Y. 78 lynching images. Andrew Roth, organizer.

Temporary exhibition, "Without Sanctuary: Lynching Photography in America." March 14–Oct. 1, 2000, New-York Historical Society, New York, N.Y. 65 lynching images. James Allen, curator.

Temporary exhibition, "Without Sanctuary: Lynching Photography in America." Sept. 22–Jan. 21, 2002, Andy Warhol Museum, Pittsburgh, Penn. 98 lynching images. James Allen, curator; Margery King and Jessica Arcand, organizers of related exhibitions.

Temporary exhibition, "Without Sanctuary: Lynching Photography in America." May 1–Dec. 31, 2002, Martin Luther King Jr. National Historic Site, 450 Auburn Ave., Atlanta, GA 30312. Daily 9–5 except Thanksgiving and Christmas; admission free. 42 lynching images. Joseph F. Jordan, curator; Douglas H. Quin, exhibition designer; Frank Catroppa, Saudia Muwwakkil, and Melissa English-Rias, MLK Site team.

Without Sanctuary: Lynching Photography in America. By James Allen, John Lewis, Leon F. Litwack, and Hilton Als. (Santa Fe: Twin Palms, 2000. 209 pp. $60.00, ISBN 0-944092-69-1.)

Atlanta: introductory video, 12 min., dir. Matt Dibble, 2002.

Conference: "Lynching and Racial Violence in America: Histories and Legacies," Oct. 3–6, 2002, Emory University, Atlanta.

Atlanta: related programming includes weekly forums for community discussion, educational curricula, and a film series at Emory University.

Internet: Emory University <www.emory.edu/WithoutSanctuaryExhibit/> (Sept. 19, 2002); Martin Luther King Jr. National Historic Site <http://www.nps.gov/malu> (Sept. 20, 2002). Both sites link to the JournalE presentation of 81 images from the book, Without Sanctuary <http://www.journale.com/withoutsanctuary/> (Sept. 20, 2002).

In 1931, Matthew Williams was taken from a hospital bed in Salisbury, Maryland, by over two hundred white men and hanged from a tree by the courthouse in front of a thousand spectators. In a piece called "The Sound and the Fury," H. L. Mencken condemned the Williams lynching in the Baltimore Evening Sun. Referring to the typical collection of body parts, pieces of chain and charred wood, and photographs common when black men were lynched for entertainment across the South, Mencken wrote, "What has become of these souvenirs the Marylander and Herald [Salisbury's local paper] does not say. No doubt they now adorn a parlor mantelpiece of some humble but public spirited Salisbury home. . . . I can only hope that they are not deposited eventually with the Maryland Historical Society." . . .

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