Today I led students through some primary source readings about a lynching in our town in 1884. Then I gave them a map and let them work out that it was two blocks from campus. Then we walked there--and talked about hard #publichistory. A powerful day. #twitterstorians 
2/ I wrote a couple of blog posts as I was researching the lynching, here is the first one which links to the second: northwesthistory.blogspot.com/2015/03/a-lync…
3/ The victim was a Spokane Indian man, accused of raping a white woman, but he was the wrong man. It happened here on the north corner of College and Fourth. In 1884 the county jail was here, today it is the parking lot for the old Cheney High School. google.com/maps/@47.48897…
4/ I've been doing this activity for a couple of years now. I point back at the college and ask when it was founded. Two years before the lynching. We realize that members of our college community certainly participated.
5/ BTW here is a compact story I wrote about the Cheney lynchings (there was a Chinese man in 1883) for my digital project, @SpokaneHistoric: spokanehistorical.org/items/show/540
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