Lynching in Virginia : Racial Terror and Its Legacy / edited by Gianluca De Fazio.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

De Fazio, Gianluca, editor.

Series:

American South series.

American South Series

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Lynching--Virginia--History--19th century.

Lynching.

Lynching--Government policy--Virginia.

Virginia--Race relations--History.

Virginia.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (347 pages)

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

Charlottesville, Virginia : University of Virginia Press, [2024]

Summary:

"Uncovering the history and examining the legacy of lynching in the state of Virginia. Although not as associated with lynching as other southern states, Virginia has a tragically extensive history with these horrific crimes. This important volume examines the more than one hundred people who were lynched in Virginia between 1866 and 1932. Its diverse set of contributors - including scholars, journalists, activists, and students - recover this wider history of lynching in Virginia, interrogate its legacy, and spotlight contemporary efforts to commemorate the victims of racial terror across the commonwealth. Together, their essays represent a small part of the growing effort to come to terms with the role Virginia played in perpetuating America's national shame"-- Provided by publisher.

"This volume examines the wider history of lynching in Virginia, interrogates its legacy, and spotlights contemporary efforts to commemorate the victims of racial terror across the commonwealth"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Lynching and racial terror in Virginia

Impossible love: an interracial romance in post-reconstruction Virginia / Jim Hall

"You shudder at the picture": the Richmond Planet and the lynching of three black miners in Clifton Forge in 1891 / Dolores Flamiano

Lynchings in southwest Virginia, 1883-1927 / James William Hagy

Justice and injustice in the coalfields: lynchings in Wise County / Tom Costa and Zoe Crihfield

Faces of O'Ferrall: Virginia's antilynching governor in the Jim Crow era / Charles T. Blair

How "Judge Lynch" influenced Virginia courts, lawmakers, and journalists / Dale Brumfield

Uneven justice: the origin and practice of legalized lynch law in Jim Crow Virginia / Kevin Hegg

Six sham trials: Judge George Anderson and Jim Crow in Alleghany and Botetourt County courts / Josh Howard

The train at Wood's Crossing / Brendan Wolfe

Public history as activism: helping a community come to terms with racial violence / Andrea Douglas

Restoring history: writing the narratives of Alexandria's two documented lynchings / Maddy McCoy, Farar Elliott, Susan K. Flinn, Ann Marie Hay, Elizabeth Lockwood, Christopher Milko, and Rob Taylor

The legacy of lynching in Virginia today / Gianluca De Fazio

An afterword / W. Fitzhugh Brundage.

Notes:

Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9780813951171

0813951178

OCLC:

1427254454