Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction: Racism's ugly past; white Texas's twentieth century actions / Bruce A. Glasrud
  • Paris is burning: lynching and racial violence in Lamar County, 1890-1920 / Brandon Jett
  • An "exciting occurrence": the lynching / Patricia Bernstein
  • The Houston riot of 1917 / Calvin Smith
  • Violence in a heathen land: the Longview race riot of 1919 / William M. Tuttle Jr .
  • A "good job" in the early hours of the morning / Monte Akers
  • The Sherman courthouse riot of 1930 / Edward Hake Phillips
  • Violence in an "arsenal of democracy": the Beaumont race riot, 1943 / James A. Burran
  • Houston and the TSU riot / Bernard Friedberg
  • Loyal Garner arrest / Howard Swindle
  • The Jasper lynching / Joyce E. King
  • Bust town / Nate Blakeslee
  • The beating of Billy Ray Johnson / Pamela Colloff
  • Afterword: Twenty-first century Texas race relations / Bruce A. Glasrud.