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Record Nr.

UNISA996247869103316

Autore

Wright George C

Titolo

Racial violence in Kentucky, 1865-1940 : lynchings, mob rule, and "legal lynchings" / / George C. Wright

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Baton Rouge, : Louisiana State University Press, 1990

ISBN

0-8071-4162-3

0-585-31873-5

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (369 p.)

Disciplina

305.8009769

364.1/34

364.134

Soggetti

African Americans - Crimes against - Kentucky - History

Discrimination in capital punishment - Kentucky - History

Discrimination in criminal justice administration - Kentucky - History

Lynching - Kentucky - History

Kentucky Race relations

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di contenuto

Cover; Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction: Kentucky Violence, Severe and Long Lasting; ONE: Reconstruction: Using Violence to Preserve the Status Quo, 1865-1874; TWO: ""Lynchings Are Necessary,"" 1875-1899; THREE: ""To Hang in an Orderly Fashion,"" 1900-1940; FOUR: Ousting ""Troublemakers""; FIVE: Holding Back a Rising Tide, 1875-1899; SIX: Meeting Mob Violence with Renewed Determination, 1900-1940; SEVEN: ""A Sacrifice Upon the Altar of the Law,"" 1875-1899; EIGHT: Color-Coded Justice: Racial Violence Under the Law, 1900-1940; APPENDIX A: Victims of Lynchings

APPENDIX B: Names of People Legally Executed Selected Bibliography; Index;

Sommario/riassunto

"Wright vividly portrays the clash between racist militants and blacks who would not submit to terror. The book makes clear the brutality concealed beneath the surface veneer of moderation." -Journal of Southern History In this investigative look into Kentucky's race relations from the end of the Civil War to 1940, George C. Wright brings to light



a consistent pattern of legally sanctioned and extralegal violence employed to ensure that blacks knew their "place" after the war.In the first study of its kind to target the racial patterns of a specific state, Wright demonstrates that despite Kentu