They left great marks on me : African American testimonies of racial violence from emancipation to World War I / Kidada E. Williams.

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Williams, Kidada E.
Language:English
Published: New York : New York University Press, [2012], ©2012.
Subjects:
African Americans > History > 1863-1877.
African Americans > History > 1877-1964.
African Americans > Violence against > History > 19th century.
African Americans > Violence against > History > 20th century.
Lynching > United States > History.
Racism > United States > History > 20th century.
Physical Description:xii, 281 pages ; 24 cm
Format: Book
Contents:
  • The "special object(s) of hatred and persecution" : the terror of emancipation
  • "A long series of oppression, injustice, and violence" : the purgatory of sectional reconciliation
  • "Lynched, burned alive, Jim-Crowed in my country" : shaping responses to the descent to hell
  • "If you can, the colored needs help" : reaching out from local communities
  • "It is not for us to run away from violence" : fueling the NAACP's antilynching
  • Crusade
  • Epilogue : closer to the promised land.