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At the hands of persons unknown : the lynching of Black America / Philip Dray.
LIBRA HV6464 .D73 2003
Available from offsite location
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Dray, Philip.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Lynching--Southern States--History.
- Lynching.
- African Americans--Crimes against--Southern States.
- African Americans.
- African Americans--Crimes against.
- History.
- Southern States--Race relations.
- Southern States.
- Race relations.
- Physical Description:
- xii, 528 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm
- Edition:
- Modern Library paperback edition.
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Modern Library, 2003.
- Summary:
- Written by an acclaimed civil rights historian, this landmark history of lynching in America explores the social consensus that made it possible and the heroic crusade by a handful of black and white citizens to stamp it out.
- Contents:
- "A negro's life is a very cheap thing in Georgia"
- Judge Lynch's Law
- To gather my race in my arms
- The compromise
- "Let the eagle scream!"
- Writing history with lightning
- The wisest and best response
- The shame of America
- The tragedy of lynching
- States' rights, states' wrongs
- It can happen here
- Under color of law.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages [467]-477) and index.
- Local Notes:
- Gift of Mr. & Mrs. Sheldon Hackney.
- ISBN:
- 0375754458
- 9780375754456
- OCLC:
- 51330092
- Online:
- Contributor biographical information
- Publisher description
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