https://www.josephinebollingmccall.com/home daily 1.0 2024-10-23 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f3b6983ee93e55a69d24877/1598768030349-HOL4NO9HDY2GJOBNR9O2/jo_bolling_mccall.jpg Home Photo by Jay Reeves, AP https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f3b6983ee93e55a69d24877/1599286289655-TEU5CFX0ARAYZRFFBA07/bolling_inscription.jpg Home Jo’s father, Elmore Bolling, was a successful black entrepreneur and philanthropist who defied all odds to create an integrated array of transportation and farming businesses in the Jim Crow South. It was his very success that got him killed by whites who routinely lynched black competitors to maintain systems of white supremacy. Jo tells the story of her father’s life: his genius for business, his faith and investment in his community, and his persistence in the face of daunting barriers. The devastating impact of his murder on Jo’s family and their entire community, black and white, reverberates to this day. America’s history of racial terror violence has yet to be adequately addressed or stopped. We need to know and understand Elmore Bolling’s story and our history if we are ever to transform the systems that bind us all. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f3b6983ee93e55a69d24877/1597820156280-84R4KVS4B3J3JA535UGO/penalty_for_success_book_cover.jpg Home - The Penalty for Success My Father Was Lynched in Lowndes County, Alabama by Josephine Bolling McCall https://www.josephinebollingmccall.com/about-jo daily 0.75 2021-04-18 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f3b6983ee93e55a69d24877/1599115235743-9F3H8Z9HX3D6F7XOGW0Q/josephine_bolling_mccall_commonwealth_club.jpg About Jo https://www.josephinebollingmccall.com/penalty-for-success daily 0.75 2022-06-05 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f3b6983ee93e55a69d24877/1599114830032-NVJBY806GEN47VB08Z9A/penalty_for_success_book_cover.jpg Jo's Book December 4, 1947. Elmore Bolling, a prominent Black community leader in Lowndes County, Alabama, was attacked by two white men on the highway near his home. The men shot him six times in the chest with a pistol, and once in the back with a shotgun. On hearing the shots, his five-year-old daughter, Jo, ran with her mother and brother and found him dead in a ditch. For most of her life, Jo and her family believed the myth perpetuated by white people—and even by Rosa Parks—about why Mr. Bolling was killed. But in her 60s, Jo’s curiosity was piqued when someone shared a newspaper article from 1947 that she had never seen. It described her father’s murder as a lynching. That set her on a ten year process of research, revealing what really happened to her father, and piecing together the investigation of the crime that law enforcement refused to conduct. In her book, The Penalty For Success, she tells the story of her father’s life: his genius for business; his faith and investment in his community; his marriage to Bertha Mae, mother of his seven children and partner in his businesses; and his persistence and success in the face of daunting barriers. A picture of Lowndes County from Reconstruction to post-World War II emerges of a society complicated by the strictures of Jim Crow, but not always in predictable ways. Jo shows that it was her father’s very success that drew white people to kill her father, following a common practice of lynching Black competitors to maintain white supremacy. https://www.josephinebollingmccall.com/contact daily 0.75 2021-10-24 https://www.josephinebollingmccall.com/events daily 0.75 2020-11-22 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f3b6983ee93e55a69d24877/1602481010414-P8CHK54254T5DVEBKLVQ/civil-rights-restorative-justice.jpg Events - The Civil Rights and Restorative Justice Project November 17, 2020 Northeastern University School of Law Jo served on a panel of descendants of lynching victims. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f3b6983ee93e55a69d24877/1602480593702-EBYCM9ASKXX557DBD6CX/ASALH+Plenary Events - Preserving the History of the Voting Rights Struggle September 30, 2020 105th Annual Meeting and Virtual Conference of the Association for the Study of African American Life and History Jo spoke about the struggle for voting rights in Lowndes County, Alabama. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f3b6983ee93e55a69d24877/1602480417560-W7HHX36PVGV95JHU3J2D/Old+South+Event+March+2020-EMAIL+%281%29.jpg Events - An Evening with Josephine Bolling McCall March 6, 2020 Old South Church in Boston https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f3b6983ee93e55a69d24877/1602480226801-5ZE2J47U8OM4MZZGW0G3/MA+Supreme+Court+Presentation+by+Josephine+McCall Events - Presentation : Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court March, 2020 Boston, Massachusetts On tour in Boston, Jo spoke to the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court judges and staff. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f3b6983ee93e55a69d24877/1602479974797-PY6NVG9LFRH0XVU6QKT9/Josephine+Bolling+McCall+at+University+of+San+Francisco Events - Reflections on Lynching in America April 3, 2019 University of San Francisco Jo appeared in conversation with USF School of Law Professor Rhonda Magee. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f3b6983ee93e55a69d24877/1602479688004-4CJKIFEQPJR4YG76034B/Josephine+Bolling+McCall+and+Riva+Hirsch Events - Bystanders and Complicity in Nazi Germany and the Jim Crow South Thursday & Friday, February 22–23, 2018 University of Alabama at Birmingham Birmingham, Alabama Co-sponsored by the UAB Institute for Human Rights & the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Jo appeared in conversation with Riva Hirsch, a Holocaust survivor, to discuss the dangers and personal impact of racial violence and genocide. https://www.josephinebollingmccall.com/media daily 0.75 2022-01-19 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f3b6983ee93e55a69d24877/b19fae69-4a7f-407b-b661-1c69fa1ab781/Who+We+Are.jpg Media Who We Are: A Chronicle of Racism in America A Jeffrey Robinson Documentary January 2022 Former ACLU Deputy Legal Director Jeffery Robinson’s groundbreaking talk on the history of U.S. anti- Black racism is interwoven with archival footage, interviews, and Robinson's story, exploring the enduring legacy of white supremacy and our collective responsibility to overcome it. Read the raving reviews here. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f3b6983ee93e55a69d24877/1617568842018-Q517RR0LGQYCWAE8IYMI/image.png Media Black Business Owners Must Overcome Obstacles to Have a Chance at Building Wealth ABC Nightline March 1, 2021 Byron Pitts interviews Jo about how her father's murder for being "too prosperous to be a Negro" erased the wealth he had built and plunged her family into poverty. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f3b6983ee93e55a69d24877/1602481208969-6B9HQ4H82ACPKXZIKAS2/1619_project.jpg Media - The story of Elmore Bolling and his family illustrates America’s racial wealth gap, “perhaps the most glaring legacy of American slavery and the violent economic dispossession that followed.” by Trymaine Lee for 1619 Project The New York Times Magazine August 14, 2019 A vast wealth gap, driven by segregation, redlining, evictions and exclusion, separates black and white America. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f3b6983ee93e55a69d24877/1602481652923-8X5B9GGLK6CU8XQROKRD/latimes.jpg Media - New lynching memorial in Alabama offers chance to remember and heal The Los Angeles Times April 21, 2018 At the opening of the Equal Justice Initiative's National Memorial for Peace and Justice, Jo was interviewed about her father who is one of the over 4,000 lynching victims honored at the site. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f3b6983ee93e55a69d24877/1602482171520-Z4OGTB6FA5ZX97TRKRSC/pbs-newshour.png Media - A national memorial confronts the terror of lynching PBS News Hour April 27, 2018 Newshour correspondent Jeffrey Brown interviews Jo for the report: A National Memorial Confronts the Terror of Lynching. Jo appears at the 2:55 mark. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f3b6983ee93e55a69d24877/1602482099599-TY6SA4HX6NI7B4IIC0TY/josephine_bolling_mccall_commonwealth_club.jpg Media - The Penalty for Success: My Father Was Lynched in Alabama The Commonwealth Club San Francisco, California April 8, 2019 Jo was interviewed by University of Santa Clara School of Law professor Margaret Russell at America’s oldest and largest public affairs forum. https://www.josephinebollingmccall.com/order-the-book daily 0.75 2024-07-19