Detroit Museum Gambles On Lynching Exhibit Controversy

Article (Knight Ridder)

Last week we posted an article about the fiscal troubles of Detroit's Wright Museum, the nation's largest black history museum. To return to profitability and attract record crowds, the museum has announced a controversial and graphic photo exhibit about lynching. The exhibit opens July 15. This exhibit has previously been in other big cities, to mixed reaction. In deference to our readers we selected the least gruesome photo that we could find online to accompany this post, but terrorism ain't pretty.