Bibliograph

Lynching in America, confronting the legacy of racial terror, Equal Justice Initiative

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Lynching in America, confronting the legacy of racial terror, Equal Justice Initiative

Language

eng

Bibliography note

Includes bibliographical references

Illustrations

illustrations

Index

no index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

Lynching in America

Nature of contents

bibliography

Oclc number

903537451

Responsibility statement

Equal Justice Initiative

Sub title

confronting the legacy of racial terror

Summary

Documents the Institute's multi-year investigation into lynching in twelve Southern states during the period between Reconstruction and World War II. Our researchers verified 3959 racial terror lynchings of African Americans in Alabama, Arkansas, Florida, Georgia, Kentucky, Louisiana, Mississippi, North Carolina, South Carolina, Tennessee, Texas, and Virginia between 1877 and 1950 -- at least 700 more lynchings of black people in these states than previously reported in the most comprehensive work done on lynching to date. Makes the case that lynching of African Americans was terrorism, a widely supported phenomenon used to enforce racial subordination and segregation

Table Of Contents

Secession and Emancipation, 1861-1865 -- Back To Brutality: Restoring Racial Hierarchy Through Terror and Violence -- Lynching in America: From "Popular Justice" to Racial Terror -- Enabling an Era of Lynching: Retreat, Resistance, and Refuge -- Confronting Lynching -- Trauma and the Legacy of Lynching

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