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LIFE IN THE LATER LANE: Following in the footsteps of heroes: My visit to the cradles of Civil Rights
By Bill Snyder
SF SENIORBEAT COLUMN – March 17, 1886. A date you probably never considered. Carroll County, Mississippi. A place you’ve probably never visited or even heard of. But on that day, a terrible crime was committed there. SF SENIORBEAT COLUMN – March 17, 1886. A date you probably never considered. Carroll County, Mississippi. A place you’ve probably never visited or even heard of. But on that day, a terrible crime was committed there.
A white mob, enraged by the effrontery of two black men who dared to accuse a white man of assault, attacked the courthouse where the trial was held and killed 23 of the black residents who were in attendance. No one was ever held accountable.
I learned about this atrocity during a recent visit to The National Memorial for Peace and Justice in Montgomery, Alabama. The memorial is often called “The Lynching Museum,” a striking structure atop a grassy slope.
photo by david bacon
Photo Essay
For Coachella Farmworkers, the Grape Strikes of the 20th Century Cast a Long Shadow: Reflections on what could have been, a half-century later
Essay and photography by David Bacon | June 18, 2026
Not long after I started working as a photographer and a writer, I was driving up a rural road in Oasis, California, on the west side of Coachella Valley, not far from the Salton Sea, where I saw a sign for a mango ranch. I had been an organizer for the United Farm Workers in the 1970s, but I had never seen mangoes growing in California. I stopped the car and walked into the orchard. There I found an old man, digging holes between the roots of a tree.