A festival of violence : an analysis of Southern lynchings, 1882-1930
Title:
A festival of violence : an analysis of Southern lynchings, 1882-1930
Author:
Tolnay, Stewart Emory.
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Publication Information:
Urbana : University of Illinois Press, [1995]
©1995
Physical Description:
xiv, 297 pages : illustrations, maps ; 23 cm
Language:
English
Contents:
A legacy of racial violence -- A portrait of the lynching era, 1880-1930 -- Social threat, competition, and mob violence -- Lynching as popular justice -- The role of king cotton -- Southern politics and lynching, 1880-1900 -- The great migration and the demise of lynching -- The tragedy of lynching: an overview.
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ISBN:
9780252021275
9780252064135
Format :
Book
