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They left great marks on me : African American testimonies of racial violence from emancipation to World War I
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- Creator
- Kidada E. Williams
- Format
- Books
- Language
- English
- Publication
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- New York : New York University Press, [2012]
- ©2012
- Physical Details
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- xii, 281 pages ; 24 cm
- ISBNs
- 0814795374, 9780814784860, 9780814795361, 0814784860, 0814784682, 0814795358, 9780814795378, 9780814795354, 9780814784680, 0814795366, 9780814784686
- OCLC
- ocn733232567, ocn778459402
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 257-270) and index.
- The "special object(s) of hatred and persecution" : the terror of emancipation -- "A long series of oppression, injustice, and violence" : the purgatory of sectional reconciliation -- "Lynched, burned alive, Jim-Crowed in my country" : shaping responses to the descent to hell -- "If you can, the colored needs help" : reaching out from local communities -- "It is not for us to run away from violence" : fueling the NAACP's antilynching -- Crusade -- Epilogue : closer to the promised land
Subjects
- African Americans -- History -- 1863-1877.
- African Americans -- History -- 1877-1964.
- African Americans -- Violence against -- History -- 19th century.
- African Americans -- Violence against -- History -- 20th century.
- Lynching -- United States -- History.
- Racism -- United States -- History -- 20th century.