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In the pines : a lynching, a lie, a reckoning / Grace Elizabeth Hale.
Van Pelt Library HV6465.M7 H35 2023
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Hale, Grace Elizabeth, author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Johnson, Versie--Death and burial.
- Johnson, Versie.
- Hale, Grace Elizabeth--Family.
- Hale, Grace Elizabeth.
- Lynching--Mississippi--History--20th century.
- Lynching.
- Family secrets.
- African Americans--Crimes against--Mississippi.
- African Americans.
- Racism--Mississippi--History--20th century.
- Racism.
- Cold cases (Criminal investigation).
- Genre:
- True crime stories.
- Physical Description:
- xxxviii, 215 pages, 8 unnumbered leaves of plates : illustrations, maps ; 25 cm
- Edition:
- First edition.
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Little, Brown and Company, 2023.
- Summary:
- An award-winning scholar of white supremacy tackles her toughest research assignment yet: the unsolved murder of a black man in rural Mississippi while her grandfather was the local sheriff--a cold case that sheds new light on the hidden legacy of racial terror in America.
- Contents:
- Prologue: Two tales
- Introduction: Splinters and silence
- Part I: The road to the Lipsey Farm. In the pines
- A gamble
- A separate world
- Black boy
- Part II: "Quiet and orderly". The law
- Gone underground
- A lie
- The cost
- Epilogue: Unwritten history.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9780316564748
- 0316564745
- OCLC:
- 1406130877
- Publisher Number:
- 99995042181
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