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On the courthouse lawn : confronting the legacy of lynching in the twenty-first century / Sherrilyn A. Ifill.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Ifill, Sherrilyn A.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Lynching--United States--History.
- Lynching--Maryland--History.
- Lynching.
- History.
- Maryland.
- United States.
- Physical Description:
- xx, 204 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Boston : Beacon Press, [2007]
- Contents:
- Part 1 A Season of Madness: Twentieth-Century Lynching on the Eastern Shore
- Chapter 1 A Conversation on Race: Lynching and the Courthouse Lawn 3
- Chapter 2 Mob Rule on the Shore, 1931-1933 24
- Chapter 3 A Conspiracy of Silence: Ordinary People and Complicity in Lynching 57
- Chapter 4 "The Law in All Its Majesty" 74
- Chapter 5 "Serving the Peninsula": Local Newspapers and Lynching 105
- Part 2 Truth and Reconciliation for Lynching in the Twenty-First Century
- Chapter 6 Reconciliation and Lynching in International Context 117
- Chapter 7 Breaking the Silence: "Words are the Most Powerful Tools of All" 132
- Chapter 8 Confronting the Role of Institutions in Racial/Ethnic Violence 154
- Chapter 9 Reconciliation in the Twenty-First Century 173.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 179-191) and index.
- ISBN:
- 0807009873
- OCLC:
- 70060939
- Publisher Number:
- 9780807009871
- Online:
- Publisher description
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