Popular justice : a history of lynching in America / Manfred Berg.

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Bibliographic Details
Uniform Title:American ways series.
Main Author: Berg, Manfred, 1959-
Language:English
Published: Chicago : Ivan R. Dee, [2011], ©2011.
Series:American ways series.
Subjects:
Lynching > United States > History.
Physical Description:xiii, 212 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
Format: Book
Contents:
  • The roots of lynching in Colonial and Revolutionary North America
  • The rising of lynch law in Antebellum America
  • Frontier justice
  • Lynching, riots, and political terror in the Civil War years
  • "Indescribable barbarism": the lynching of African Americans in the age of Jim Crow
  • Popular justice beyond black and white
  • The struggle against lynching
  • From lynching to hate crime
  • Lynching in American memory and culture.