A Deed So Accursed : Lynching in Mississippi and South Carolina, 1881-1940 /
From the end of Reconstruction to the onset of the civil rights era, lynching was prevalent in developing and frontier regions that had a dynamic and fluid African American population. Focusing on Mississippi and South Carolina because of the high proportion of African Americans in each state during...
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Format: | Électronique eBook |
Langue: | Inglés |
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Charlottesville :
University of Virginia Press,
2013.
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Collection: | Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Accès en ligne: | Texto completo |
Table des matières:
- Introduction
- "Strictly a white man's country, with a white man's civilization" : lynching in Mississippi
- "To hell with the constitution" : lynching in South Carolina
- "No rights for the negro which a white man is bound to respect" : lynching and political power in Mississippi and South Carolina
- "The equal of some white men and the superior of others" : African American victims of lynching
- "An example must be made" : lynch mobs and the response of African Americans.