Racial violence in Kentucky, 1865-1940 : lynchings, mob rule, and "legal lynchings" / / George C. Wright
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| Autore: |
Wright George C
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| Titolo: |
Racial violence in Kentucky, 1865-1940 : lynchings, mob rule, and "legal lynchings" / / George C. Wright
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| Pubblicazione: | Baton Rouge, : Louisiana State University Press, 1990 |
| Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (369 p.) |
| Disciplina: | 305.8009769 |
| 364.1/34 | |
| 364.134 | |
| Soggetto topico: | African Americans - Crimes against - Kentucky - History |
| Discrimination in capital punishment - Kentucky - History | |
| Discrimination in criminal justice administration - Kentucky - History | |
| Lynching - Kentucky - History | |
| Soggetto geografico: | Kentucky Race relations |
| 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 |
| Titolo autorizzato: | Racial violence in Kentucky, 1865-1940 |
| ISBN: | 0-8071-4162-3 |
| 0-585-31873-5 | |
| Formato: | Materiale a stampa  |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
| Record Nr.: | 996247869103316 |
| Lo trovi qui: | Univ. di Salerno |
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