Confronting history, Congress studies addition of lynching sites to national park system – New Hampshire Bulletin

The U.S. House is considering a bill that would put lynching sites in western Tennessee on track to become part of the National Park Service, part of a trend this year of Congress using the agency to advance discussions of the nation’s troubled and often violent racial history.

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