|
Anatomy of a lynching
|
James R. McGovern |
It is an academic (PhD work) that examines the last (?) lynching of an African American (Negro), which occurred in West Florida. The author observed that economic conditions; that is, competition fo… |
OL109624W |
|
Lynching in North Carolina
|
Vann R. Newkirk |
"From the end of the Civil War until the mid-1920s, the culture of lynching prospered in North Carolina. Between 1865 and 1941, at least168 North Carolinians lost their lives to this form of mob viol… |
OL13614273W |
|
Blood harvest
|
Brant Randall |
"What drives a small town in 1929 New England to lynch a man? When immigrant Nick DeCosta elopes with the wild youngest daughter of the MacKay clan, the county's leading moonshiners, the stage is set… |
OL13754557W |
|
Simeon's story
|
Herb Boyd,Simeon Wright,Simeon Wright |
A modern tragedy, this story has had a great impact on race relations in America. Emmett Till's kidnapping and murder, a grotesque crime in a Southern backwater that became the catalyst for the civil… |
OL13852525W |
|
Let's meet Ida B. Wells-Barnett
|
Helen Frost |
Simple text and photographs introduce the life of Ida B. Wells-Barnett, a journalist who wrote about and spoke against the unfair treatment of African Americans. |
OL15045490W |
|
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 |
|
Incognegro
|
Mat Johnson,Warren Pleece |
"Writer Mat Johnson (HELLBLAZER: PAPA MIDNITE), winner of the prestigious Hurston-Wright Legacy Award for fiction, constructs a fearless graphic novel that is both a page-turning mystery and a distur… |
OL16335733W |
|
The lynching
|
Laurence Leamer |
"The New York Times bestselling author of The Kennedy Women chronicles the powerful and spellbinding true story of a brutal race-based killing in 1981 and subsequent trials that undid one of the most… |
OL19668258W |
|
Starshine & clay
|
Kamilah Aisha Moon |
112 pages ; 23 cm |
OL19718877W |
|
The outfit
|
Matthew P. Mayo |
Life at the Barr-McGee ranch has settled into a pleasant lull of work and rest for members of The Outfit. Life should be good . . . but big Rafe Barr stews about his wife and son's murderer, and leav… |
OL19724184W |
|
Framed
|
Robert Francis Kennedy |
"On Halloween 1975, Martha Moxley was found brutally murdered outside her home in swanky Greenwich, Connecticut. Twenty-seven years after her death, the State of Connecticut spent some $25 million to… |
OL20034080W |
|
Ida B. Wells-barnett and the Crusade Against Lynching
|
Alison Morretta |
64 pages : 24 cm |
OL20251643W |
|
Brodeck's report
|
Philippe Claudel |
A murder investigation in post-war France becomes an exploration of the legacy of German occupation. |
OL24738551W |
|
The grace of guilt
|
Gareth Young |
When fifteen-year-old Jessica Jackson's crush on her pastor's son leads to rape, she finds herself pregnant and rejected by her family and church. When Simon Cassell's homosexual relationship is disc… |
OL27059978W |
|
"What virtue there is in fire"
|
Edwin T. Arnold |
"The 1899 lynching of Sma Hose in Newnan, Georgia, was one of the earliest and most gruesome events in a tragic chapter of U.S. history. Hose was a black laborer accused of killing Alfred Cranford, a… |
OL3237117W |
|
Honor killing
|
David E. Stannard |
In the fall of 1931, Thalia Massie, the bored, aristocratic wife of a young naval officer stationed in Honolulu, accused six nonwhite islanders of gang rape. The ensuing trial let loose a storm of ra… |
OL4279238W |
|
Skeletons
|
Kate Wilhelm |
"Lee Donne's family is gifted. Her mother has three doctorates, her father is an economics genius, and her grandfather is a world-renowned Shakespearean scholar. Lee's own gift, if you could call it … |
OL506243W |
|
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 |
|
Our town
|
Cindy Carr,C. Carr |
The brutal lynching of two young black men in Marion, Indiana, on August 7, 1930, cast a shadow over the town that still lingers. It is only one event in the long and complicated history of race rela… |
OL5821471W |
|
California Casualties
|
Robert J. Randisi |
When Skye Fargo saves a doomed and dangling man from a neck-snapping party on the California Coast, all hell breaks loose. Now he's the one riding for his life, with a killer posse on his tail. |
OL999569W |