Comments on: Without Sanctuary: Lynching Photography in America Opens on January 19

By: Candace Porch

Candace Porch — Mon, 05 Jul 2010 19:32:32 +0000

The work you are doing is great. I would like to talk to someone about a old book that i have. It has a partial listing of approximately 5,000 negoes lynched in United States since 1859. This is one of the names in the book, Daniel Ahren,Greensboro Georgia Apr.6 1894.It also a lot of news clippings about diff. Lynching, New York World December 7 1899 ROASTED ALIVE MAYSVILLE, Dec. 6 Richard Coleman, a twenty year old colored boy was burned at the stake.

By: Harold Willingham

Harold Willingham — Sat, 19 Jun 2010 17:05:04 +0000

Where will the exhibit be traveling
to next.

By: Tanya

Tanya — Sun, 16 May 2010 22:42:00 +0000

Does anyone know if this exhibit will be traveling to other cities after it closes? If so, could you let me know where and when it will be shown? I’d like to see it but I don’t live near Cincinnati.
Thank you!

By: Sherry Smith

Sherry Smith — Sun, 11 Apr 2010 04:18:41 +0000

I visited the museum today and I am so glad that I was able to tour the exhibit – “Without Sanctuary”. I have told so many people about the very candid postcards. My jaw is still on the exhibit floor. I was familiar with lynching, but not really the sportsmanship behind it. The museum did an AWESOME job speaking for the lynched, the silenced, the scared, and the spectators. It made me think about my grandmother born in 1910 in Arkansas. If the exhibit comes closer to me I will go again with even more people.

By: Guy Goring

Guy Goring — Sat, 10 Apr 2010 13:27:40 +0000

This exhibit allows a glimpse in to the attitudes and frame of mind and values that was the foundation of the exploitative mind of the segregationists. It is an evil mindset and psychology that allowed the objectification of human beings. It is the vile and reprehensible side of humanity that may be alive in in a less overt manner in the hearts of many today especially in the South.

By: Isaiah Mckinney

Isaiah Mckinney — Mon, 01 Mar 2010 22:48:46 +0000

First I want to commend the initiative of the Freedom Center to expose its visitors of the horrific struggle of American especially the African Americans. However the exhibit, “Without Sanctuary”, didn’t reach its optimal level of effectiveness in education. I feel as though the exhibit divorced lynching from its historical context. This is done when the exhibit failed to Mention the author of lynching, Willie Lynch. The practice of lynching was just a physiological affliction that served to affect the psychological stability of slaves.
Since it has taken lynching out of its historical context it cannot be comprehended by the contemporary mind seeing that we today are so far removed. It will then keep us ignorant of its affect on society today.

Thankyou

By: Vivian L. Sessoms

Vivian L. Sessoms — Tue, 09 Feb 2010 21:41:30 +0000

I am impressed with your work on this subject and would like to volunteer or get involved in your project. I think this is an excellent approach to archiving our history.

V. Sessoms

By: Mia Powell

Mia Powell — Fri, 29 Jan 2010 19:58:42 +0000

I plan on seeing it 1-30-2010 with my little cousin and I think that all kids need to see it they hung little kids and our kids need to see it have not even been that long. I can’t believe it was still happening in the 60′s but yes I can because believe it or not I went to visit my uncle in Penn in 1976 and they still had the for color fountain only and for white only fountain and that was in1976 and that haven’t even been long

By: Paul Bernish

Paul Bernish — Wed, 20 Jan 2010 13:19:57 +0000

Although the images at withoutsanctuary.org are similar and in some instances identical to those shown in the Freedom Center’s exhibition, there are significant differences that make a visit worth the time, effort and money. Our exhibition team has created a compelling environment for the lynching images — muted tones, extra space so that visitors have the room to quietly examine each image, and appropriate background music. Our exhibition also includes a special section focusing on the history of lynching in Ohio, and there is also a space for visitors to sit and contemplate what they are seeing — we call it the Respite Space. When visitors complete their tour of Without Sanctuary, they have multiple opportunities to describe their thoughts and reactions, including journals, a video comment, and writing their impressions on a whiteboard.

In a perfect world, we wouldn’t have to charge an admission to see Without Sanctuary or, indeed, to see all the exhibits at the Freedom Center. But admissions help defray the cost of bringing Without Sanctuary to Cincinnati and associated expenses of physically creating what we feel is one of the most impactful museum experiences in Cincinnati’s history.

By: Shelby

Shelby — Tue, 19 Jan 2010 04:23:46 +0000

For those that don’t have the discretionary funds for the entrance fee, the entire display is online at… http://www.withoutsanctuary.org