Lynching in America : a history in documents / edited by Christopher Waldrep.

Bibliographic Details
Other Authors: Waldrep, Christopher, 1951-
Language:English
Published: New York : New York University Press, [2006], ©2006.
Subjects:
Lynching > United States > History.
Online Access:
Connect to: Table of contents - All users (Cataloging @ Library of Congress)
Physical Description:xxii, 281 pages ; 26 cm
Format: Book
Contents:
  • Introduction : explanations
  • The first lynchers
  • Jacksonian America
  • Slavery
  • How the West was won
  • Civil war and reconstruction
  • The gilded age : shall the wheel of race agitation be stopped?
  • State sovereignty and mob law
  • Western lynching in an industrializing age
  • The limits of progressive reform
  • Federal law against mob law
  • The new deal
  • High-tech lynchings.