Berg, Manfred, 1959-

Popular justice : a history of lynching in America / Manfred Berg. - Chicago : Ivan R. Dee, c2011. - xiii, 212 p. : ill. ; 24 cm. - The American ways series . - American ways series. .

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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