Books

20+ results found
Title Authors Description OpenBook ID
Anatomy of a lynching 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 Starshine & clay Kamilah Aisha Moon 112 pages ; 23 cm OL19718877W
The outfit 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 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 Ida B. Wells-barnett and the Crusade Against Lynching Alison Morretta 64 pages : 24 cm OL20251643W
Brodeck's report 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 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" "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 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 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 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 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 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
Next page