Now closed to traffic, the Hanging Bridge still stands ... heyday to the earliest hints of its demise, the Shubuta bridge cast its shadow on Mississippi’s white supremacist regime and the ...

In Shubuta, the fearful relatives ... Jason Morgan Ward is associate professor of history at Mississippi State University. He is the author of “Hanging Bridge: A Lynching Site and a Civil ...

In Shubuta, the fearful relatives ... Jason Morgan Ward is associate professor of history at Mississippi State University and the author of Hanging Bridge, which will be published next year.

SAGINAW, MI - Near Shubuta, Mississippi, there is a bridge known as the “Hanging Bridge,” the site of at least two brutal lynching incidents and the murder of at least six Black residents.