Amy Wood On Lynching, Anti-Lynching, And Honoring A Legacy

Host Jonathan Judaken talks with author and professor Amy Wood about her book,Lynching and Spectacle: Witnessing Racial Violence in America, 1890-1940.  In her book, "Wood examines how lynching, as a spectacle, borrowed much from the practice of public executions that still occurred in the early 1900s. Lynching was also shaped by the traditions of evangelical Christianity.