The old photograph projected onto the overhead screen showed what seemed to be a merry bunch of solid Americans looking on and cheering at a happy occasion.

But that was just part of the story and literally half of the photo. In the next slide the entire photograph was revealed, and the classroom of history teachers were startled to see that it was in fact a lynching of an African-American man that had elicited the crowd’s joyful bearing.

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