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Title Authors Description OpenBook ID
Red summer Red summer Cameron McWhirter A narrative history of one of America's deadliest episodes of race riots and lynchings traces how black Americans were brutally targeted by anti-black uprisings that culminated in hundreds of deaths … OL16182658W
Murder on Shades Mountain Murder on Shades Mountain Melanie Morrison "One August night in 1931, on a secluded mountain ridge overlooking Birmingham, Alabama, three young white women were brutally attacked. The sole survivor, Nell Williams, age eighteen, said a black m… OL17890348W
The bloody shirt The bloody shirt Stephen Budiansky A narrative account of Reconstruction-era violence documents vigilante attacks on African Americans and their white allies, in an analysis that traces the period through the careers of two Union offi… OL18532841W
A massacre in Memphis A massacre in Memphis Stephen V. Ash "An unprecedented account of one of the bloodiest and most significant racial clashes in American history In May 1866, just a year after the Civil War ended, Memphis erupted in a three-day spasm of r… OL19970714W
Redbone Redbone Ron Stodghill Lance Herndon was at the top of his game in 1996. At age forty-one he was a self-made millionaire, the owner of Access, Inc., a successful information-systems consulting company. As a prominent membe… OL276850W
Burning faith Burning faith Christopher B. Strain In the 1990s, churches across the southeastern United States were targeted and set ablaze. These arsonists predominately targeted African American congregations and captured the attention of the medi… OL5715631W
At the hands of persons unknown At the hands of persons unknown Philip Dray It is easy to shrink from our country's brutal history of lynching. Lynching is called the last great skeleton in our nation's closet: It terrorized all of black America, claimed thousands upon thous… OL5731370W
Slavery by another name Slavery by another name Douglas A. Blackmon In this groundbreaking historical expose, Douglas A. Blackmon brings to light one of the most shameful chapters in American history--an "Age of Neoslavery" that thrived from the aftermath of the Civi… OL9334405W