A deed so accursed : lynching in Mississippi and South Carolina, 1881-1940 / / Terence Finnegan
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| Autore: |
Finnegan Terence <1961->
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| Titolo: |
A deed so accursed : lynching in Mississippi and South Carolina, 1881-1940 / / Terence Finnegan
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| Pubblicazione: | Charlottesville, : University of Virginia Press, 2013 |
| Edizione: | 1st ed. |
| Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (246 p.) |
| Disciplina: | 364.1/34 |
| Soggetto topico: | Lynching - South Carolina - History - 19th century |
| Lynching - South Carolina - History - 20th century | |
| Lynching - Mississippi - History - 19th century | |
| Lynching - Mississippi - History - 20th century | |
| Note generali: | Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph |
| Nota di bibliografia: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Nota di contenuto: | Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- "Strictly a white man's country, with a white man's civilization" : lynching in Mississippi -- "To hell with the constitution" : lynching in South Carolina -- "No rights for the negro which a white man is bound to respect" : lynching and political power in Mississippi and South Carolina -- "The equal of some white men and the superior of others" : African American victims of lynching -- "An example must be made" : lynch mobs and the response of African Americans -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Index. |
| Sommario/riassunto: | Ultimately, Finnegan shows how out of the tragedy of lynching came the triumph of the civil rights movement, which was built upon the organizational efforts of African American anti-lynching campaigns. |
| Titolo autorizzato: | A deed so accursed |
| ISBN: | 0-8139-3385-4 |
| Formato: | Materiale a stampa  |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
| Record Nr.: | 9910806274503321 |
| Lo trovi qui: | Univ. Federico II |
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