Lynching in America a history in documents / [electronic resource] :
edited by Christopher Waldrep.
- New York : New York University Press, c2006.
- xxii, 281 p.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Introduction : explanations -- The first lynchers -- Jacksonian America -- Slavery -- How the West was won? -- Civil War and Reconstruction -- The gilded age : shall the wheel of race agitation be stopped? -- State sovereignty and mob law -- Western lynching in an industrializing age -- The limits of progressive reform -- Federal law against mob law -- The new deal -- High-tech lynchings.
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