A LYNCHING AT PORT JERVIS: Race and Reckoning in the Gilded Age

On June 2nd, 1892, a young Black man named Robert Lewis was lynched by a violent mob. Although lynchings were seen as a Southern scourge, this occurred above the Mason-Dixon Line, in New York. Explore the events leading to Lewis' murder, the reactions of a divided nation, and its implications today. Illus.