02919nam 22005053u 450 99624786910331620230421035913.00-8071-4162-30-585-31873-5(CKB)111004368559162(EBL)1115596(OCoLC)827208561(MiAaPQ)EBC1115596(EXLCZ)9911100436855916220130418d1996|||| u|| |engRacial violence in Kentucky, 1865-1940 lynchings, mob rule, and "legal lynchings" /George C. WrightBaton Rouge Louisiana State University Press19901 online resource (369 p.)Description based upon print version of record.0-8071-1536-3 0-8071-2073-1 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 LynchingsAPPENDIX B: Names of People Legally Executed Selected Bibliography; Index;"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 KentuAfrican AmericansCrimes againstKentuckyHistoryDiscrimination in capital punishmentKentuckyHistoryDiscrimination in criminal justice administrationKentuckyHistoryLynchingKentuckyHistoryKentuckyRace relationsAfrican AmericansCrimes againstHistory.Discrimination in capital punishmentHistory.Discrimination in criminal justice administrationHistory.LynchingHistory.305.8009769364.1/34364.134Wright George C83421AU-PeELAU-PeELAU-PeELBOOK996247869103316Racial violence in Kentucky, 1865-19402392263UNISA