Duke Students March Against Lynching Noose on Campus
April 1, 2015 | Revolution Newspaper | revcom.us
Lynching noose at Duke University in North Carolina. Credit: dukepoccaucus.tumblr.com
Wednesday, April 1: A large noose was discovered hanging prominently from a tree near the student center at Duke University in Durham, North Carolina. The noose is the symbol of the lynching of Black people in the “old” Jim Crow South. Anytime it is displayed, especially anonymously in the dead of night, it is a threat to the life of every Black person in the vicinity.
University administrators declared that incidents like the hanging of the noose would not be tolerated. Yet this comes only two weeks after a Black woman student at Duke was taunted with a racist chant by white students.
The hanging of the noose was met with a huge outrage, and the Black Student Alliance immediately led a protest of hundreds through the campus. People chanted “We are not afraid, we stand together!” Later, there was a large campus-wide outdoor assembly.
Hundreds march at Duke University against lynching noose found on campus, April 1. AP photo
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