In this investigative look into Kentucky's race relations from the end of the Civil War to 1940, George C. Wright brings to light a consistent pattern of legally sanctioned and extralegal violence employed to ensure that blacks knew their "place" after the war. In the first study of its kind to t
Legacies of lynching : racial violence and memory
โ Scribed by Markovitz, Jonathan
- Publisher
- Minneapolis, MN : University of Minnesota Press
- Year
- 2004
- Tongue
- English
- Category
- Library
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โฆ Synopsis
"A previous version of chapter 3 was published as 'Collective memory, credibility structures, and the case of Tawana Brawley,' Discourse 22, no. 1 (2000): 31-52"--T.p. verso
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