Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates/Lynching

Lynching

 * Reason:Some encyclopedic topics are disturbing. This is one of the most disturbing, particularly after restoration.  But it's a part of history and not something to shrink from.  The highest technical quality image of its kind I could locate.  United States, but lacking specifics on the location and the man's name.  The NAACP reports several thousand lynchings took place during 1882-1968.  Restored version of File:Lynching.jpg.
 * Articles this image appears in:Lynching, Lynching in the United States
 * Creator:National Photo Company


 * Support as nominator -- Durova  275 22:04, 9 July 2009 (UTC)
 * Support This is a horrifying and disgusting image, but it meets the criteria and is well suited to illustrating its loathsome subject. Nick-D (talk) 10:58, 10 July 2009 (UTC)
 * Support Noodle snacks (talk) 12:31, 10 July 2009 (UTC)
 * Support - a bit grainy, but that's excusable given age. Look forward to cluebatting the PC brigade when this reaches the main page. MER-C 13:33, 10 July 2009 (UTC)
 * Comment While I support this image's promotion to FP status, it's not suitable for the main page. Nick-D (talk) 23:19, 10 July 2009 (UTC)
 * Support Excellent EV. Makeemlighter (talk) 19:31, 10 July 2009 (UTC)
 * Support for the EV.    Sophus Bie  (talk) 01:18, 12 July 2009 (UTC)
 * Support nice choice of "hiding" the face - it makes the image 1000 times less gruesome. Nergaal (talk) 04:49, 15 July 2009 (UTC)