A Black Man Accused of Rape, a White Officer in the Klan, and a 1936 Lynching That Went Unpunished

The Washington Post reports on the case of Thomas Finch, who was 28 when he was killed by an Atlanta police officer in 1936: “The circumstances of Finch’s lynching — one of more than 6,500 between 1865 and 1950 — were brought to light in 2017 by Carissa Aranda, a civil rights attorney in western Massachusetts who at the time was a Northeastern University law school student investigating cold cases for the school’s Civil Rights and Restorative Justice Project.”