A lynching at Port Jervis : race and reckoning in the Gilded Age

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Label

A lynching at Port Jervis : race and reckoning in the Gilded Age

Title remainder

race and reckoning in the Gilded Age

Statement of responsibility

Philip Dray

Creator

• Dray, Philip

Author

• Dray, Philip

Subject

• African Americans -- New York (State) | Port Jervis -- History -- 19th century
• Lynching -- New York (State) | Port Jervis -- History -- 19th century
• Port Jervis (N.Y.) -- Race relations | History -- 19th century
• Racism -- New York (State) -- History -- 19th century

Language

eng

Summary

"A book on a lynching that took place in New York in 1892, forcing the North to reckon with its own racism and eventually inspiring a powerful novella by Stephen Crane"--

Assigning source

Provided by publisher

Cataloging source

DLC

Dewey number

364.1/34

Illustrations

illustrations

Index

no index present

LC call number

HV6462.N7

LC item number

D73 2022

Literary form

non fiction

Nature of contents

bibliography