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Democracy abroad, lynching at home : racial violence in Florida /

In this book, Tameka Hobbs investigates the history of racial violence and lynchings in Florida, focusing especially on a string of brutal lynchings that occurred during the 1940s. She argues that these lynchings created difficult diplomatic moments during both World War II and the Cold War period a...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Hobbs, Tameka B. (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Gainesville : University Press of Florida, [2015]
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Lynched twice: Arthur C. Williams, Gadsden County, 1941
  • A degree of restraint: the trials of Cellos Harrison, 1940-1943
  • The failure of forbearance: the lynching of Cellos Harrison, Jackson County, 1943
  • "A very cheap article": the lynching of Willie James Howard, Suwannee County, 1944
  • Still at it: the lynching of Jesse James Payne, Madison County, 1945.