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A Lynching in Little Dixie

Author : Patricia L. Roberts
Publisher : McFarland
ISBN 13 : 1476634866
Total Pages : 200 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (766 download)

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Download or read book A Lynching in Little Dixie written by Patricia L. Roberts and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2018-08-24 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: James T. Scott's 1923 lynching in the college town of Columbia, Missouri, was precipitated by a case of mistaken identity. Falsely accused of rape, the World War I veteran was dragged from jail by a mob and hanged from a bridge before 1000 onlookers. Patricia L. Roberts lived most of her life unaware that her aunt was the girl who erroneously accused Scott, only learning of it from a 2003 account in the University of Missouri's school newspaper. Drawing on archival research, she tells Scott's full story for the first time in the context of the racism of the Jim Crow Midwest.

Black and White Justice in Little Dixie

Author : Doug Hunt
Publisher : Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
ISBN 13 : 9781460911037
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (11 download)

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Download or read book Black and White Justice in Little Dixie written by Doug Hunt and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2011-03-15 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 2004, Doug Hunt published "A Course in Applied Lynching," an essay that drew national attention to the 1923 murder of James T. Scott in front of several hundred witnesses, few of whom would testify honestly when the prominent citizen who led the lynch mob went to trial. In 2010 he republished the essay as a short book (Summary Justice) that supported a community-wide effort to understand the Scott lynching and its legacy. The volume presented here includes an expanded version of the 2004 essay, along with two companion essays about racism and justice in Columbia, Missouri--a heartland city that in many ways typifies all of America. "Names" takes us back to the 1830s to tell the remarkable story of one black couple's fight to free its children from bondage. "Watching the Watchers" takes us forward to 2010 and puts us in the jury box at the trial of a young black man who has been tasered and beaten during a routine traffic stop, and who now faces a charge of refusing to obey a police order. Taken together, the three essays give us a way of thinking more clearly about race and justice in American society, about where we stand now, and through what difficulties we got there.

The Lynching of Cleo Wright

Author : Dominic J. CapeciJr.
Publisher : University Press of Kentucky
ISBN 13 : 0813156467
Total Pages : 352 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (131 download)

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Download or read book The Lynching of Cleo Wright written by Dominic J. CapeciJr. and published by University Press of Kentucky. This book was released on 2014-10-17 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: On January 20, 1942, black oil mill worker Cleo Wright assaulted a white woman in her home and nearly killed the first police officer who tried to arrest him. An angry mob then hauled Wright out of jail and dragged him through the streets of Sikeston, Missouri, before burning him alive. Wright's death was, unfortunately, not unique in American history, but what his death meant in the larger context of life in the United States in the twentieth-century is an important and compelling story. After the lynching, the U.S. Justice Department was forced to become involved in civil rights concerns for the first time, provoking a national reaction to violence on the home front at a time when the country was battling for democracy in Europe. Dominic Capeci unravels the tragic story of Wright's life on several stages, showing how these acts of violence were indicative not only of racial tension but the clash of the traditional and the modern brought about by the war. Capeci draws from a wide range of archival sources and personal interviews with the participants and spectators to draw vivid portraits of Wright, his victims, law-enforcement officials, and members of the lynch mob. He places Wright in the larger context of southern racial violence and shows the significance of his death in local, state, and national history during the most important crisis of the twentieth-century.

The Roots of Rough Justice

Author : Michael J. Pfeifer
Publisher : University of Illinois Press
ISBN 13 : 0252093097
Total Pages : 162 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (52 download)

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Download or read book The Roots of Rough Justice written by Michael J. Pfeifer and published by University of Illinois Press. This book was released on 2011-04-01 with total page 162 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this deeply researched prequel to his 2006 study Rough Justice: Lynching and American Society, 1874–1947, Michael J. Pfeifer analyzes the foundations of lynching in American social history. Scrutinizing the vigilante movements and lynching violence that occurred in the middle decades of the nineteenth century on the Southern, Midwestern, and far Western frontiers, The Roots of Rough Justice: Origins of American Lynching offers new insights into collective violence in the pre-Civil War era. Pfeifer examines the antecedents of American lynching in an early modern Anglo-European folk and legal heritage. He addresses the transformation of ideas and practices of social ordering, law, and collective violence in the American colonies, the early American Republic, and especially the decades before and immediately after the American Civil War. His trenchant and concise analysis anchors the first book to consider the crucial emergence of the practice of lynching of slaves in antebellum America. Pfeifer also leads the way in analyzing the history of American lynching in a global context, from the early modern British Atlantic to the legal status of collective violence in contemporary Latin America and sub-Saharan Africa. Seamlessly melding source material with apt historical examples, The Roots of Rough Justice tackles the emergence of not only the rhetoric surrounding lynching, but its practice and ideology. Arguing that the origins of lynching cannot be restricted to any particular region, Pfeifer shows how the national and transatlantic context is essential for understanding how whites used mob violence to enforce the racial and class hierarchies across the United States.

Look Away!

Author : James Howell Street
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 241 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (654 download)

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Download or read book Look Away! written by James Howell Street and published by . This book was released on 1977 with total page 241 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Under Sentence of Death

Author : W. Fitzhugh Brundage
Publisher : UNC Press Books
ISBN 13 : 0807866555
Total Pages : 352 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (78 download)

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Download or read book Under Sentence of Death written by W. Fitzhugh Brundage and published by UNC Press Books. This book was released on 2017-11-01 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the assembled work of fifteen leading scholars emerges a complex and provocative portrait of lynching in the American South. With subjects ranging in time from the late antebellum period to the early twentieth century, and in place from the border states to the Deep South, this collection of essays provides a rich comparative context in which to study the troubling history of lynching. Covering a broad spectrum of methodologies, these essays further expand the study of lynching by exploring such topics as same-race lynchings, black resistance to white violence, and the political motivations for lynching. In addressing both the history and the legacy of lynching, the book raises important questions about Southern history, race relations, and the nature of American violence. Though focused on events in the South, these essays speak to patterns of violence, injustice, and racism that have plagued the entire nation. The contributors are Bruce E. Baker, E. M. Beck, W. Fitzhugh Brundage, Joan E. Cashin, Paula Clark, Thomas G. Dyer, Terence Finnegan, Larry J. Griffin, Nancy MacLean, William S. McFeely, Joanne C. Sandberg, Patricia A. Schechter, Roberta Senechal de la Roche, Stewart E. Tolnay, and George C. Wright.

Southern Society and Its Transformations, 1790-1860

Author : Susanna Delfino
Publisher : University of Missouri Press
ISBN 13 : 0826272436
Total Pages : 271 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (262 download)

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Download or read book Southern Society and Its Transformations, 1790-1860 written by Susanna Delfino and published by University of Missouri Press. This book was released on 2011-06-15 with total page 271 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Southern Society and Its Transformations, a new set of scholars challenge conventional perceptions of the antebellum South as an economically static region compared to the North. Showing that the pre-Civil War South was much more complex than once thought, the essays in this volume examine the economic lives and social realities of three overlooked but important groups of southerners: the working poor, non-slaveholding whites, and middling property holders such as small planters, professionals, and entrepreneurs. The nine essays that comprise Southern Society and Its Transformations explore new territory in the study of the slave-era South, conveying how modernization took shape across the region and exploring the social processes involved in its economic developments. The book is divided into four parts, each analyzing a different facet of white southern life. The first outlines the legal dimensions of race relations, exploring the effects of lynching and the significance of Georgia’s vagrancy laws. Part II presents the advent of the market economy and its effect on agriculture in the South, including the beginning of frontier capitalism. The third section details the rise of a professional middle class in the slave era and the conflicts provoked. The book’s last section deals with the financial aspects of the transformation in the South, including the credit and debt relationships at play and the presence of corporate entrepreneurship. Between the dawn of the nation and the Civil War, constant change was afoot in the American South. Scholarship has only begun to explore these progressions in the past few decades and has given too little consideration to the economic developments with respect to the working-class experience. These essays show that a new generation of scholars is asking fresh questions about the social aspects of the South’s economic transformation. Southern Society and Its Transformations is a complex look at how whole groups of traditionally ignored white southerners in the slave era embraced modernizing economic ideas and actions while accepting a place in their race-based world. This volume will be of interest to students of Southern and U.S. economic and social history.

Little Dixie Devil

Author : Bernie Babcock
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 278 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (374 download)

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Download or read book Little Dixie Devil written by Bernie Babcock and published by . This book was released on 1937 with total page 278 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Tragedy of Lynching

Author : Arthur F. Raper
Publisher : UNC Press Books
ISBN 13 : 146964021X
Total Pages : 591 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (696 download)

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Download or read book The Tragedy of Lynching written by Arthur F. Raper and published by UNC Press Books. This book was released on 2017-10-10 with total page 591 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book deals with the quest for a preventive to lynching which can be undertaken only after one has an understanding of what it is that is to be prevented. This necessary analysis of lynching--its background, circumstances, and meaning--introduces many baffling elements. The author has made a detailed study of the lynchings of 1930 in an effort to find an answer to the complexities of the problem. Originally published in 1933. A UNC Press Enduring Edition -- UNC Press Enduring Editions use the latest in digital technology to make available again books from our distinguished backlist that were previously out of print. These editions are published unaltered from the original, and are presented in affordable paperback formats, bringing readers both historical and cultural value.

Missouri Historical Review

Author :
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 278 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (318 download)

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Download or read book Missouri Historical Review written by and published by . This book was released on 2011 with total page 278 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Thirty Years of Lynching in the United States, 1889-1918

Author : National Association for the Advancement of Colored People
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 118 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (129 download)

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Download or read book Thirty Years of Lynching in the United States, 1889-1918 written by National Association for the Advancement of Colored People and published by . This book was released on 1919 with total page 118 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Semblance of Truth

Author : Martin Puntney
Publisher : CreateSpace
ISBN 13 : 9781463504502
Total Pages : 284 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (45 download)

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Download or read book The Semblance of Truth written by Martin Puntney and published by CreateSpace. This book was released on 2011-06-21 with total page 284 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "[T]he story of Connally Daulton, a newspaper editor thrust into an investigation of the rape and murder of a young school teacher and a black youth burned alive for the crime 30 years before. The story's setting is 1969 in a small Missouri town that still takes pride in its nickname, Little Dixie. An actual incident in Missouri, where the author had his first newspaper job, inspired the story. ... [a] fictional response to the lynching and silence that followed"--Page 4 of cover.

Southern Anthropological Society Proceedings

Author : Southern Anthropological Society
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 176 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (38 download)

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Download or read book Southern Anthropological Society Proceedings written by Southern Anthropological Society and published by . This book was released on 1968 with total page 176 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Gender of Racial Politics and Violence in America

Author : William F. Pinar
Publisher : Peter Lang Incorporated, International Academic Publishers
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 1334 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book The Gender of Racial Politics and Violence in America written by William F. Pinar and published by Peter Lang Incorporated, International Academic Publishers. This book was released on 2001 with total page 1334 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Perhaps not since Gunnar Myrdal's 1944 classic An American Dilemma has a book appeared as synoptic and unsettling as The Gender of Racial Politics and Violence in America. Here William F. Pinar elucidates the great «American dilemma», that «peculiar» institution of racial subjugation, especially its gendered - and specifically «queer» - psychosexual dynamics. Explicating in detail two imprinting episodes in American racial history - lynching and prison rape - Pinar argues that the gender of racial politics and violence in America is in some fundamental sense «queer». This book will be of interest to students in education, cultural studies, African American studies, women's and gender studies, and history.

Hostile Heartland

Author : Brent M.S. Campney
Publisher : University of Illinois Press
ISBN 13 : 0252051335
Total Pages : 389 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (52 download)

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Download or read book Hostile Heartland written by Brent M.S. Campney and published by University of Illinois Press. This book was released on 2019-06-30 with total page 389 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: We forget that racist violence permeated the lower Midwest from the pre-Civil War period until the 1930s. From Kansas to Ohio, whites orchestrated extraordinary events like lynchings and riots while engaged in a spectrum of brutal acts made all the more horrific by being routine. Also forgotten is the fact African Americans forcefully responded to these assertions of white supremacy through armed resistance, the creation of press outlets and civil rights organizations, and courageous individual activism. Drawing on cutting-edge methodology and a wealth of documentary evidence, Brent M. S. Campney analyzes the institutionalized white efforts to assert and maintain dominance over African Americans. Though rooted in the past, white violence evolved into a fundamentally modern phenomenon, driven by technologies such as newspapers, photographs, automobiles, and telephones. Other surprising insights challenge our assumptions about sundown towns, who was targeted by whites, law enforcement's role in facilitating and perpetrating violence, and the details of African American resistance.

Just a Little Lynching Now and Then--

Author : Alan J. McMurry
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 313 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (2 download)

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Download or read book Just a Little Lynching Now and Then-- written by Alan J. McMurry and published by . This book was released on 1988 with total page 313 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Conviction

Author : Denver Nicks
Publisher : Chicago Review Press
ISBN 13 : 1613738366
Total Pages : 211 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (137 download)

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Download or read book Conviction written by Denver Nicks and published by Chicago Review Press. This book was released on 2019-06-04 with total page 211 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: On New Year's Eve, 1939, Elmer Rogers and his wife, Marie, were preparing for bed when a shotgun blast sent buckshot deep into Elmer's rib cage. When Marie ran from the room, screaming for help, a second gunshot erupted. The eldest Rogers child grabbed his baby brother and ran while the middle child clung to the bed frame, paralyzed with terror. The intruders poured coal oil around the house and set fire to the front door before escaping. Within a matter of days, investigators identified several suspects: convicts who had been at a craps game with Rogers the night before. Also at the craps game was a young black farmer named W. D. Lyons. As anger at authorities grew, political pressure mounted to find a villain. The governor's representative settled on Lyons, who was arrested, tortured into signing a confession, and tried for the murder. The NAACP's new Legal Defense and Education Fund sent its young chief counsel, Thurgood Marshall, to take part in the trial. The NAACP desperately needed money, and Marshall was convinced that the Lyons case could be a fundraising boon for both the state and national organizations. It was. The case went on to the US Supreme Court, and the NAACP raised much-needed money from the publicity. Conviction is the story of Lyons v. Oklahoma, the oft-forgotten case that set Marshall and the NAACP on the path that led ultimately to victory in Brown v. Board of Education and the accompanying social revolution in the United States.