Lynching in the West: 1850–1935 9780822388241

This visual and textual study of lynchings that took place in California between 1850 and 1935 shows that race-based lyn

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Lynching in the West: 1850–1935
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The New York Times bestselling author of The Kennedy Women chronicles the powerful and spellbinding true story of a brut

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After observing the varying reactions to the 1998 death of James Byrd Jr. in Texas, called a lynching by some, denied by

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A landmark in the conversation about race and religion in America. "They put him to death by hanging him on a tree

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The End of American Lynching questions how we think about the dynamics of lynching, what lynchings mean to the society i

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This book deals with the quest for a preventive to lynching which can be undertaken only after one has an understanding

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"Ranging from personal correspondence to courtroom transcripts to journalistic accounts, Christopher Waldrep has ex

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