Lynching in America a history in documents

Lynching in America a history in documents - New York New York University Press 2006 - xxii,279p. 26 cm.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Introduction : explanations -- The first lynchers -- Jacksonian America -- Slavery -- How the West was won? -- Civil War and Reconstruction -- The gilded age : shall the wheel of race agitation be stopped? -- State sovereignty and mob law -- Western lynching in an industrializing age -- The limits of progressive reform -- Federal law against mob law -- The new deal -- High-tech lynchings.

9780814793992

2005015600


Lynching--History.--United States

HV6457 / .L95 2005

364.134 / HI-

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