Popular justice : a history of lynching in America / Manfred Berg.

By: Material type: TextTextSeries: American ways seriesPublication details: Chicago : Ivan R. Dee, c2011.Description: xiii, 212 p. : ill. ; 24 cmISBN:
  • 156663802X : HRD
  • 9781566638029
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 364.1/34 22
LOC classification:
  • HV6457 .B47 2011
Contents:
The roots of lynching in Colonial and Revolutionary North America -- The rising of lynch law in Antebellum America -- Frontier justice -- Lynching, riots, and political terror in the Civil War years -- "Indescribable barbarism": the lynching of African Americans in the age of Jim Crow -- Popular justice beyond black and white -- The struggle against lynching -- From lynching to hate crime -- Lynching in American memory and culture.
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Includes bibliographical references (p. [199]-206) and index.

The roots of lynching in Colonial and Revolutionary North America -- The rising of lynch law in Antebellum America -- Frontier justice -- Lynching, riots, and political terror in the Civil War years -- "Indescribable barbarism": the lynching of African Americans in the age of Jim Crow -- Popular justice beyond black and white -- The struggle against lynching -- From lynching to hate crime -- Lynching in American memory and culture.

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