A cornerstone event for the “Without Sanctuary”conference is a free public talk on Thursday, Oct. 11 at 7 p.m. at First United Presbyterian Church by Indiana University history Professor Claude A. Clegg III.
Clegg will reflect upon the 1906 lynchings of three black men in his hometown of Salisbury that are considered in his book, Troubled Ground: A Tale of Murder, Lynching and Reckoning in the New South. Clegg is a historian who grew up in Salisbury but had never heard of the lynchings until 2002. He combed through government and newspaper records to find details, and his research and book offer insights into southern history, violence and race ideology.