The August 1926 lynching of my second cousin twice removed, Raymond Arthur Byrd, remains one of my most-read posts. Every week. Thanks to Google Analytics, I've been able to monitor the reach with posts relating to Raymond's story. It doesn't surprise me that Black History/Studies academics have read it. I can gauge this from all of the readers accessing the original post from university computers (e.g. IPs associated with accounts like .edu and .ac.uk). The NAACP has certainly read it. As have journalists from CNN, Al Jazeera, the BBC the UK's Channel 4, Italy's La Repubblica and the French newspaper Le Monde. It's also been read by people at Twentieth Century Fox. Its reach led to a British PhD student to get in touch with myself and one of Raymond’s descendants as part of her research into race issues in America.
This is a widely read story.This episode is also available as a blog post: https://genealogyadventures.net/2016/01/21/the-1926-lynching-of-raymond-byrd-part-ii/
