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lagatta
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posted 08 March 2005 11:25 AM

Another story of a long search for justice: http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/4316715.stm

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Bacchus
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posted 08 March 2005 11:54 AM

Fascinating, Thanks Lagatta. I would lvoe to see the book that someone wrote about lynchings in the U.S. to 1964.

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belva
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posted 08 March 2005 04:03 PM

Not a lot of writing but I recommend a couple of classics:

30 Years of Lynching in the United States, 1889-1918 published by the NAACP in 1919
and
On Lynchings: Southern Horrors; A Red Record; Mob Rule in New Orleans, a 1969 reprint of 3 works by the African-American crusader Ida B. Wells-Barnett (1862-1931).

I used excerpts from both of these when teaching a course some years ago on civil rights law & minority groups--my students came away shocked by what they read!

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Bacchus
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posted 08 March 2005 04:33 PM

Oh theres a new one Belva, and has a gallery showing going on in many cities of the postcards and pictures from those lynchings. Its a recent book, within the last 2 years easily

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belva
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posted 08 March 2005 06:07 PM

quote:
Originally posted by Bacchus:
Oh theres a new one Its a recent book, within the last 2 years easily

Do you know the title or the author's name? I'd love to check it out.

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Bookish Agrarian
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posted 08 March 2005 06:17 PM

Does it happen to be

At the hands of persons unknown : the lynching of Black America

By
Dray, Philip.

In Canada it was published by Random House in 2002, expect it is the same for the States. We have the book in our library system in rural Ontario, so I expect it is widely available.

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Bacchus
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posted 09 March 2005 12:08 PM

Thats Grant, I think that might be the one. Is it a pictorial type history? If it is, then its defintiely the one

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Fidel
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posted 10 March 2005 06:14 AM

Southern barbarism is infamous. At least ten thousand blacks are said to have been lynched after slavery ended. Women and children were covered in coal oil to flambe alive, butchered and hanged to death. Sometimes white children were given the school day off to attend. An ear or strip of flesh was a prized souvenir.

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