Lynching postcard

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A lynching postcard is a postcard bearing the photograph of a lynching—a vigilante killing usually motivated by racial hatred—intended to be distributed, collected, or kept as a souvenir. Often a lynching postcard would be inscribed with racist text or poems. Lynching postcards were in widespread production for more than fifty years in the United States, although their distribution through the United States mail was banned in 1908.

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