A narrative history of one of America's deadliest episodes of race riots and lynchings traces how black Americans were brutally targeted by anti-black uprisings that culminated in hundreds of deaths and set the stage for the civil rights movement.
Record details
ISBN:9780805089066 :
ISBN:0805089063
Physical Description:print x, 352 p., [8] p. of plates : ill., map ; 25 cm.
Edition:1st ed.
Publisher:New York, N.Y. : Henry Holt & Co., 2011.
Content descriptions
General Note:
"A John Macrae Book."
Bibliography, etc. Note:
Includes bibliographical references (p. [275]-338) and index.
Formatted Contents Note:
Carswell Grove -- Things fall apart -- The world is on fire -- The NAACP -- National Conference on Lynching -- Charleston -- Bombs and the decline of the West -- Ellisville -- Cleveland -- Longview -- Washington -- Chicago is a great foreign city -- The beach -- Like a great volcano -- Austin -- Knoxville -- A new Negro -- Omaha -- Phillips County -- Let the nation see itself -- Capitol Hill -- Coda : Carswell Grove.
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