History of Lynching Host Tavis Smiley talks to Philip Dray, author of At the Hands of Persons Unknown: The Lynching of Black America. Dray discusses spectacle lynchings in the late 19th and early 20th centuries and the resonance they have today.

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History of Lynching

March 21, 200212:00 AM ET

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History of Lynching

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Host Tavis Smiley talks to Philip Dray, author of At the Hands of Persons Unknown: The Lynching of Black America. Dray discusses spectacle lynchings in the late 19th and early 20th centuries and the resonance they have today.