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Author : Robert P. Ingalls
Release : 1988
Genre : Social Science
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Book Synopsis Urban Vigilantes in the New South by : Robert P. Ingalls
Download or read book Urban Vigilantes in the New South written by Robert P. Ingalls. This book was released on 1988. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Book Synopsis Urban Vigilantes in the New South by : Robert P. Ingalls
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Author : William J. Cooper, Jr.
Release : 2009-01-16
Genre : History
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Book Synopsis The American South by : William J. Cooper, Jr.
Download or read book The American South written by William J. Cooper, Jr.. This book was released on 2009-01-16. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In The American South, William J. Cooper, Jr. and Thomas E. Terrill demonstrate their belief that it is impossible to divorce the history of the south from the history of the United States. Each volume includes a substantial biographical essay—completely updated for this edition—which provides the reader with a guide to literature on the history of the South. Coverage now includes the devastation of Hurricane Katrina in 2005, up-to-date analysis of the persistent racial divisions in the region, and the South's unanticipated role in the 2008 presidential primaries.
Author : Walter Howard
Release : 2005-12
Genre : Education
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Book Synopsis Lynchings by : Walter Howard
Download or read book Lynchings written by Walter Howard. This book was released on 2005-12. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Lynchings: Extralegal Violence in Florida during the 1930s This study examines the 13 lynchings that occurred in the southern state of Florida during the decade of the 1930s. It provides a lively and detailed narrative account of each lynching and concludes that there is no one single theory or explanation of these extralegal executions. The author does, however, reveal several patterns common to these separate acts of vigilantism. For example, most Florida lynchings were not rural, small-town ceremonial hangings of black males accused of sexual offenses. Rather, the majority of lynch victims were forcibly seized from police and shot by small bands of carefully organized vigilantes rather than frenzied mobs. Moreover, one third of these lynchings occurred in urban areas. The study finishes with a brief overview of the three Florida lynchings of the 1940s and the sudden end of this southern lynch law in modern America.
Author : W. Fitzhugh Brundage
Release : 1993-05
Genre : History
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Book Synopsis Lynching in the New South by : W. Fitzhugh Brundage
Download or read book Lynching in the New South written by W. Fitzhugh Brundage. This book was released on 1993-05. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1905, the sociologist James Cutler observed, "It has been said that our country's national crime is lynching". If lynching was a national crime, it was a southern obsession. Based on an analysis of nearly six hundred lynchings, this volume offers a new, full appraisal of the complex character of lynching. In Virginia, the southern state with the fewest lynchings, W. Fitzhugh Brundage found that conditions did not breed endemic mob violence. The character of white domination in Georgia, however, was symbolized by nearly five hundred lynchings and became the measure of race relations in the Deep South. By focusing on these two states, Brundage addresses three central questions ignored by previous studies: How can the variation in lynching over space and time be explained? To what extent was lynching a social ritual that affirmed traditional values? What were the causes of the decline of lynching? An original aspect of the work is that it demonstrates the role blacks played in combatting lynching, whether by flight, overt protest, or other strategies. The most lasting of these were efforts to organize opposition to lynching, efforts that culminated in the expansion of the NAACP throughout the South. The book's multidisciplinary approach and the significant issues it addresses will interest historians of African-American history, the South, and American violence. At the same time, it will remind a more general audience of a tradition of violence that poisoned American life, and especially southern life.
