Hanging bridge : racial violence and America's civil rights century

Hanging bridge : racial violence and America's civil rights century / Jason Morgan Ward.

"Even at the height of the civil rights movement in the 1960s, when the clarion call for equality and justice echoed around the country, few volunteers ventured into Clarke County, Mississippi. Fewer still remained. Located just south of Neshoba County, where three civil rights workers had been...

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Main Author: Ward, Jason Morgan (Author)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Oxford : Oxford University Press, [2016]
Subjects:
1900-1999
Lynching > Mississippi > Clarke County > History > 20th century.
African Americans > Violence against > Mississippi > Clarke County > History > 20th century.
Racism > Mississippi > Clarke County > History > 20th century.
African Americans > Civil rights > Mississippi > Clarke County > History > 20th century.
Civil rights movements > Mississippi > Clarke County > History > 20th century.
HISTORY > North America.
HISTORY > United States > State & Local > South (AL, AR, FL, GA, KY, LA, MS, NC, SC, TN, VA, WV)
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Criminology.
African Americans > Violence against
African Americans > Civil rights
Civil rights movements
Lynching
Race relations
Racism
Clarke County (Miss.) > Race relations > History > 20th century.
Shubuta (Miss.) > Race relations > History > 20th century.
Shubuta (Miss.) > Biography.
Mississippi > Clarke County
Mississippi > Shubuta
Biographies
History
Biographies.
Online Access:Click for online access
Table of Contents:
  • Part I: 1918
  • The Most Atrocious Affair of Its Kind
  • Not Made Safe
  • Part II: 1942
  • The Way You Treat Your Niggers
  • A Monument To "Judge Lynch"
  • Part III: 1966
  • The Formation Of An Ugly White Crowd
  • The Real Battle For Freedom
  • Epilogue.

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