Witnessing lynching : American writers respond / edited by Anne P. Rice ; foreword by Michele Wallace.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Rice, Anne P., 1961-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Lynching--Literary collections.

Lynching.

Lynching--United States.

American literature.

United States.

Genre:

Literary collections.

Literature.

Physical Description:

xv, 324 pages : illustrations ; 27 cm

Place of Publication:

New Brunswick, N.J. : Rutgers University Press, [2003]

Contents:

Foreword: Passing, Lynching, and Jim Crow / Michele Wallace xi

Introduction: The Contest over Memory 1

1889-1900

"The Sheriff's Children" (1889) / Charles W. Chesnutt 27

"Lynch Law in the South" (1892) / Frederick Douglass 40

"An Appeal to My Countrywomen" (1896) / Frances Ellen Watkins Harper 43

Excerpt from Mob Rule in New Orleans (1900) / Ida B. Wells-Barnett 46

"Will Smith's Defense of His Race," from Contending Forces (1900) / Pauline Elizabeth Hopkins 61

1901-1910

"Thoughts on the Present Conditions," from Reminiscences of My Life in Camp with the 33rd United States Colored Troops Late 1st S.C. Volunteers (1902) / Susie Baker King Taylor 69

"Beyond the Limit" (1903) / Alice French 77

"The Haunted Oak" (1903) and "The Lynching of Jube Benson" (1904) / Paul Laurence Dunbar 89

Excerpt from "Lynching from a Negro's Point of View" (1904) / Mary Church Terrell 98

"The Blaze," from The Hindered Hand; or, The Reign of the Repressionist (1905) / Sutton E. Griggs 106

"A Litany at Atlanta" (1906) / W.E.B. Du Bois 111

"Jim Crow Cars" (1907) / Lizelia Augusta Jenkins Moorer 117

1911-1920

"I Met a Little Blue-Eyed Girl" (1912) / Bertha Johnston 121

Excerpt from The Autobiography of an Ex-Colored Man (1912) and "Brothers" (1916) / James Weldon Johnson 123

"Jimmy" (1914) / French Wilson 135

Supplement to the Crisis, July 1916 / "The Waco Horror" 141

"Nigger Jeff" (1918) / Theodore Dreiser 151

Excerpts from The Chicago Race Riots, July 1919 (1919) and "Man, the Man-Hunter" (1920) / Carl Sandburg 171

Aftermath (1919) / Mary Powell Burrill 178

"If We Must Die" (1919) and "The Lynching" (1922) / Claude McKay 188

"Goldie" (1920) / Angelina Weld Grimke 191

1921-1930

Excerpt from Lynching and Debt Slavery (1921) / William Pickens 209

"So Quietly" (1921) / Leslie Pinckney Hill 216

"The Black Draftee from Dixie" (1922) / Carrie Williams Clifford 218

"Christ Recrucified" (1922) / Countee Cullen 220

"The South" (1922) / Langston Hughes 223

"Portrait in Georgia" and "Blood-Burning Moon" (1923) / Jean Toomer 226

"White Things" (1923) / Anne Spencer 235

"The Present South" (1923) / Floyd J. Calvin 237

"The Unquenchable Fire" (1924) / Robert Bagnal 240

"Morning Ride" (1927) / Lola Ridge 247

"Tenebris" (1927) / Angelina Weld Grimke 251

"I Investigate Lynchings" (1929) / Walter Francis White 252

1931-1935

"He Was a Man" (1932) and "Let Us Suppose" (1935) / Sterling Brown 263

"Christ in Alabama" (1932) / Langston Hughes 268

Excerpt from "Scottsboro

and Other Scottsboros" (1934) / Nancy Clara Cunard 270

"Flag Salute" (1934) / Esther Popel 282

"Kneel to the Rising Sun" (1935) / Erskine Caldwell 284

"Between the World and Me" (1935) / Richard Wright 304.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages [307]-311) and index.

ISBN:

0813533295

0813533309

OCLC:

51505774