They left great marks on me [electronic resource] : African American testimonies of racial violence from emancipation to World War I / Kidada E. Williams.
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Language: | English |
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New York :
New York University Press,
c2012.
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Variant Title: |
They Left Great Marks on Me: African American Testimonies of Racial Violence From Emancipation to World War I |
Format: | Electronic eBook |
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.