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Lynched
Bailey, Amy Kate; Tolnay, Stewart E.
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Description for Lynched
Paperback. Num Pages: 304 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBBF; 1KBBS; 3JH; 3JJC; JFFE; JFSL3; JKV. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 235 x 156 x 20. Weight in Grams: 435.
On July 9, 1883, twenty men stormed the jail in Morehouse Parish, Louisiana, kidnapped Henderson Lee, a black man charged with larceny, and hanged him. Events like this occurred thousands of times across the American South in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, yet we know scarcely more about any of these other victims than we do about Henderson Lee. Drawing on new sources to provide the most comprehensive portrait of the men and women lynched in the American South, Amy Bailey and Stewart Tolnay's revealing profiles and careful analysis begin to restore the identities of--and lend dignity to--hundreds ... Read more
On July 9, 1883, twenty men stormed the jail in Morehouse Parish, Louisiana, kidnapped Henderson Lee, a black man charged with larceny, and hanged him. Events like this occurred thousands of times across the American South in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, yet we know scarcely more about any of these other victims than we do about Henderson Lee. Drawing on new sources to provide the most comprehensive portrait of the men and women lynched in the American South, Amy Bailey and Stewart Tolnay's revealing profiles and careful analysis begin to restore the identities of--and lend dignity to--hundreds ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2015
Publisher
The University of North Carolina Press United States
Number of pages
304
Condition
New
Number of Pages
304
Place of Publication
Chapel Hill, United States
ISBN
9781469620879
SKU
V9781469620879
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About Bailey, Amy Kate; Tolnay, Stewart E.
Amy Kate Bailey is assistant professor of sociology at the University of Illinois–Chicago, USA. Stewart E. Tolnay is S. Frank Miyamoto Professor of Sociology at the University of Washington, USA.
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