Lynching: American Mob Murder in Global Perspective

Addressing one of the most controversial and emotive issues of American history, this book presents a thorough reexamination of the back...

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Democracy Abroad, Lynching at Home: Racial Violence in Florida

Florida often seems not quite southern - yet it suffered more lynching than any of its Deep South neighbors when examined in proportion ...

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Black Woman Reformer: Ida B. Wells, Lynching, and Transatlantic Activism

During the early 1890s, a series of shocking lynchings brought unprecedented international attention to American mob violence. This intere...

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The World of Thomas Jeremiah: Charles Town on the Eve of the American Revolution

This book profiles the port of Charles Town, South Carolina, during the two-year period leading up to the Declaration of Independence. It ...

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Death in a Promised Land: The Tulsa Race Riot of 1921

When a crows began to gather outside the jail in Tulsa, Oklahoma, on the evening of May 31, 1921., the fate of one of its prisoners, a you...

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Lynchings of Women in the United States: The Recorded Cases, 1851-1946

Between 1850 and 1950, at least 115 women were lynched by mobs in the United States. The majority of these women were black. This book exa...

6:53 AM

What Virtue There Is in Fire: Cultural Memory and the Lynching of Sam Hose

The 1899 lynching of Sam Hose in Newnan, Georgia, was one of the earliest and most gruesome events in a tragic chapter of U.S. history. Ho...

6:46 AM

Raising Racists: The Socialization of White Children in the Jim Crow South (New Directions in Southern History.

White southerners recognized that the perpetuation of segregation required whites of all ages to uphold a strict social order -- especiall...

12:45 PM

The Thirteenth Turn: A History of the Noose

The story of a rope, a symbol, and rough justice in America. The hangman’s knot is a simple thing to tie, just a rope carefully coiled ar...

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Racial Violence in Kentucky, 1865-1940: Lynchings, Mob Rule, and "Legal Lynchings"

In this investigative look into Kentucky's race relations from the end of the Civil War to 1940, George C. Wright brings to light a co...

10:50 AM

A Hanging in Nacogdoches: Murder, Race, Politics, and Polemics in Texas's Oldest Town, 1870-1916

On October 17, 1902, in Nacogdoches, Texas, a black man named James Buchanan was tried without representation, condemned, and executed for...

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Slavery in North Carolina, 1748-1775

Michael Kay and Lorin Cary illuminate new aspects of slavery in colonial America by focusing on North Carolina, which has largely been ign...

9:07 AM

Lynching in America: A History in Documents

Whether conveyed through newspapers, photographs, or Billie Holliday’s haunting song “Strange Fruit,” lynching has immediate and graphic...

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Popular Justice: A History of Lynching in America

Lynching has often been called "America's national crime" that has defined the tradition of extralegal violence in America. ...

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The Dunbar Speaker and Entertainer, Containing the Best Prose and Poetic Selections By and About the Negro Race by Alice Moore Dunbar-Nelson

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Your Negro Neighbor by Benjamin Griffith Brawley

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The Book of American Negro Poetry: Chosen and Edited with an Essay on the Negro's Creative Genius by James Weldon Johnson

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Spring In New Hampshire And Other Poems by Claude McKay

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Ida: A Sword Among Lions: Ida B. Wells and the Campaign Against Lynching

Heralded as a landmark achievement upon publication, Ida: A Sword Among Lions is a sweeping narrative about a country and a crusader embro...

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Fugitive Justice: Runaways, Rescuers, and Slavery on Trial

During the tumultuous decade before the Civil War, no issue was more divisive than the pursuit and return of fugitive slaves—a practice e...

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