TY - BOOK AU - Berg,Manfred TI - Popular justice: a history of lynching in America T2 - The American ways series SN - 156663802X : HRD AV - HV6457 .B47 2011 U1 - 364.1/34 22 PY - 2011/// CY - Chicago PB - Ivan R. Dee KW - Lynching KW - United States KW - History N1 - 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 ER -