100 Years of Lynchings
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100 Years of Lynchings is a 1962 documentary-style book that compiles and reprints historical newspaper accounts to expose the brutal history of lynching and racial violence in the United States.
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Entity disambiguation (via context triple)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: 100 Years of Lynchings Context triple: [Ralph Ginzburg, notableWork, 100 Years of Lynchings]
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A.
The Lynching
"The Lynching" is a powerful anti-lynching poem by Claude McKay that starkly condemns racial violence and its brutal impact on Black communities in early 20th-century America.
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B.
The Man Who Killed Jim Crow
"The Man Who Killed Jim Crow" is the honorific nickname given to pioneering civil rights lawyer Charles Hamilton Houston, whose legal strategy and mentorship laid the groundwork for dismantling racial segregation in the United States.
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C.
On the Courthouse Lawn: Confronting the Legacy of Lynching in the Twenty-First Century
On the Courthouse Lawn: Confronting the Legacy of Lynching in the Twenty-First Century is a nonfiction book by civil rights lawyer Sherrilyn Ifill that examines the history and enduring impact of racial terror lynchings and calls for community-based truth and reconciliation.
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D.
The Cross and the Lynching Tree
The Cross and the Lynching Tree is a theological work by James H. Cone that explores the connection between the Christian crucifixion narrative and the history of racial terror and lynching in the United States.
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E.
The Untold Story of Emmett Louis Till
The Untold Story of Emmett Louis Till is a documentary film that reexamines the 1955 lynching of Emmett Till and its pivotal role in galvanizing the American civil rights movement.
- F. None of above. chosen
- G. Unsure - the case is ambiguous/there is not enough information to decide.
NED2
Entity disambiguation (via description)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: 100 Years of Lynchings Target entity description: 100 Years of Lynchings is a 1962 documentary-style book that compiles and reprints historical newspaper accounts to expose the brutal history of lynching and racial violence in the United States.
-
A.
The Lynching
"The Lynching" is a powerful anti-lynching poem by Claude McKay that starkly condemns racial violence and its brutal impact on Black communities in early 20th-century America.
-
B.
The Man Who Killed Jim Crow
"The Man Who Killed Jim Crow" is the honorific nickname given to pioneering civil rights lawyer Charles Hamilton Houston, whose legal strategy and mentorship laid the groundwork for dismantling racial segregation in the United States.
-
C.
On the Courthouse Lawn: Confronting the Legacy of Lynching in the Twenty-First Century
On the Courthouse Lawn: Confronting the Legacy of Lynching in the Twenty-First Century is a nonfiction book by civil rights lawyer Sherrilyn Ifill that examines the history and enduring impact of racial terror lynchings and calls for community-based truth and reconciliation.
-
D.
The Cross and the Lynching Tree
The Cross and the Lynching Tree is a theological work by James H. Cone that explores the connection between the Christian crucifixion narrative and the history of racial terror and lynching in the United States.
-
E.
The Untold Story of Emmett Louis Till
The Untold Story of Emmett Louis Till is a documentary film that reexamines the 1955 lynching of Emmett Till and its pivotal role in galvanizing the American civil rights movement.
- F. None of above. chosen
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