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Lynching and Forgiveness

Some who witnessed lynching or lived in fear of it have found ways to forgive.

01/18/2013 | Rating NR

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Lynching and Forgiveness

Clip: 1/18/2013 | 8m 15s

Some who witnessed lynching or lived in fear of it have found ways to forgive.

It is one of the darkest stains on America’s history—the lynching of thousands of African-American men, women and children in the 19th and 20th centuries—and not only in the South. Bob Faw speaks with elderly African-Americans who either witnessed lynching or lived in fear of it, and who eventually found ways to forgive.

01/18/2013 | Rating NR

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