Lynching in the Heartland e-bog
310,39 DKK
(inkl. moms 387,99 DKK)
On a hot summer night in 1930, three black teenagers accused of murdering a young white man and raping his girlfriend waited for justice in an Indiana jail. A mob dragged them from the jail and lynched two of them. No one in Marion, Indiana was ever punished for the murders. In this gripping account, James H. Madison refutes the popular perception that lynching was confined to the South, and cl...
E-bog
310,39 DKK
Forlag
Palgrave Macmillan
Udgivet
30 april 2016
Genrer
Human rights, civil rights
Sprog
English
Format
pdf
Beskyttelse
LCP
ISBN
9781137053930
On a hot summer night in 1930, three black teenagers accused of murdering a young white man and raping his girlfriend waited for justice in an Indiana jail. A mob dragged them from the jail and lynched two of them. No one in Marion, Indiana was ever punished for the murders. In this gripping account, James H. Madison refutes the popular perception that lynching was confined to the South, and clarifies 20th century America's painful encounters with race, justice, and memory.