Hanging bridge : racial violence and America's civil rights century / / Jason Morgan Ward

• Autore: Ward Jason Morgan
• Pubblicazione: New York, New York : , : Oxford University Press, , 2016; ©2016
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (345 p.)
• Disciplina: 364.134
• Soggetto topico: Lynching - Mississippi - Clarke County - History - 20th century; African Americans - Violence against - Mississippi - Clarke County - History - 20th century; Racism - Mississippi - Clarke County - History - 20th century; African Americans - Civil rights - Mississippi - Clarke County - History - 20th century
• Soggetto geografico: Clarke County (Miss.) Race relations History 20th century; Shubuta (Miss.) Race relations History 20th century; Shubuta (Miss.) Biography
• Classificazione: HIS029000HIS036120
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Cover ; Hanging Bridge: Racial Violence and America's Civil Rights Century; Copyright ; Dedication ; Contents ; Illustrations ; Acknowledgments ; Epigraph; Introduction ; Part I: 1918 ; Chapter One: The Most Atrocious Affair of Its Kind ; An Aged and Respectable White Citizen ; A Committee of New York Negroes ; Such a Thing Can and Does Happen in America ; A Martyr to the Cause of Negro Womanhood ; All Horrible Details ; Chapter Two: Not Made Safe ; The Persecuted Subjects of an Experimental Democracy ; To Forever Eliminate the Negro from Politics ; The Right Kind of Propaganda ; My Going-Away ClothesPart II: 1942 ; Chapter Three: The way you Treat your Niggers ; The Whites Are Gett ing Worried; He Was the Nigger We Wanted ; A Matter of International Importance ; What a Neat Lynching ; These Prejudices Are Born in Us ; A Mere Figment of His Imagination ; Chapter Four: A Monument to ""Judge Lynch"" ; The Work of the Mob Goes On ; A Counter-Cam paign to Hold the Negro in the Ditch ; Kid Lynchers and Poll-Tax Mobsters; The Swiftest and Most Militant Stand ; An Unfamiliar Racial Jungle ; The Slow but Rising New Spirit ; Part III: 1966 ; Chapter Five: The Formation of an Ugly White Crowd No Apparent Unrest among the Negroes ; Pleased to Take the Risk ; There Is a Revolution in Mississippi Today ; We're Not the Old Black Joe Now ; A Vicious Mood; Chapter Six: The Real Battle for Freedom ; The End of the Second Reconstruction ; The Great Toy Robbery; I Would Be Just like the KKK over There ; I Guess That's What the White Power Structure Wants ; America Is One Big Lie ; Epilogue ; Notes ; Introduction ; Chapter One ; Chapter Two ; Chapter Three ; Chapter Four ; Chapter Five ; Chapter Six ; Epilogue ; Bibliography ; Manuscript Collections Government Documents ; Books, Articles, and Pamphlets ; Index
• Sommario/riassunto: "Even at the height of the civil rights movement in the 1960s, when the clarion call for equality and justice echoed around the country, few volunteers ventured into Clarke County, Mississippi. Fewer still remained. Located just south of Neshoba County, where three civil rights workers had been murdered during 1964's Freedom Summer, Clarke lay squarely in what many considered Mississippi's, and thus America's, meanest corner. Local African Americans knew why the movement failed there. Some spoke of a bottomless hole in the snaking Chickasawhay River in the town of Shubuta, where white vigilantes had for decades dumped the bodies of murdered African Americans. Others spoke of a 'hanging bridge' that spanned that same muddy creek. Spanning three generations, Hanging Bridge reveals what happened in Clarke Country in 1919 and 1942, when two horrific lynchings took place, the first of four young people, including a pregnant woman, the second, of two teenaged boys accused of harassing a white girl. Jason Ward's painstaking and haunting reconstruction of these events traces a legacy of violence that reflects the American experience of race, from the depths of Jim Crow through to the growing power of the NAACP and national awareness of what was taking places even in the country's bleakest racial landscapes. Connecting the lynchings to each other and then to the civil rights struggles in the 1960s, when the threat of violence hung heavy over Clark County, Ward creates a narrative that links living memory and verifiable fact, illuminating one of the darkest places in American history and revealing the resiliency of the human spirit"--
• Titolo autorizzato: Hanging bridge
• ISBN: 0-19-937658-1; 0-19-937657-3
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910824034603321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II