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Our town : a a heartland lynching, a haunted town, and the hidden history of white America / Cynthia Carr.
Van Pelt Library F534.M34 L96 2006
By Request
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Carr, Cynthia, 1950-
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Racism.
- History.
- Lynching.
- African Americans.
- Social conditions.
- Marion (Ind.)--Race relations.
- Marion (Ind.).
- African Americans--Indiana--Marion--Social conditions--20th century.
- Lynching--Indiana--Marion--History--20th century.
- Cameron, James, 1914-2006.
- Cameron, James.
- Racism--Indiana--Marion--History--20th century.
- Carr, Cynthia, 1950-.
- Carr, Cynthia.
- Indiana--Marion.
- Physical Description:
- x, 501 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 25 cm
- Edition:
- First edition.
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Crown Publishers, [2006]
- Summary:
- Intensely compelling, "Our Town" is Carr's epic account of a brutal lynching that took place in 1930 in Marion, Indiana, and the town's struggle to forget the events of that terrible night. 8-page photo insert.
- Contents:
- I: "A veil hangs over this town"
- My Marion
- The survivor's story
- "We never recovered"
- Things I didn't learn in school
- Marion's hooded order
- The three P's
- "They were strangers to me"
- "No likelihood of conviction"
- II: Good history/bad history
- The ironies
- The ancestors
- Underground
- Weaver
- A riot goin' on
- The auxiliary
- III: "This assemblage of pseudo-Americans"
- In his bulletproof vest
- "The white has fell"
- "Nowhere else to turn"
- God forgives/The brotherhood doesn't
- IV: "Truth does not bring back the dead but releases them from silence"
- The reconcilers
- Brothers and sisters
- What Aunt Ruth said
- A few bad apples
- The snake under the table
- Telltale
- V: The return of Oatess Archey
- History-maker: the primary/Spring 1998
- Unity day: the election/Fall 1998
- Poor Marion: the rally/July 1999
- VI: Truth and reconciliation
- Four days in August
- In the picture.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 483-486) and index.
- ISBN:
- 0517705060
- OCLC:
- 60373939
- Publisher Number:
- 9780517705063
- Online:
- Contributor biographical information
- Publisher description
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