Lynching in the United States
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See Also
Civil Rights Movement; Slavery; Vigilantism.
Civil Rights Act of 1964 ; Civil Rights and Liberties ; Civil Rights Movement .
Further Reading (Books)
Brundage, W. Fitzhugh. Lynchings in the New South: Georgia and Virginia, 1880-1930. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1993.
Raper, Arthur F. The Tragedy of Lynching. New York: Dover, 1970.
Schechter, Patricia A. Ida B. Wells-Barnett and American Reform, 1880-1930. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2001.
White, Walter. Rope and Faggot: A Biography of Judge Lynch. Notre Dame, Ind.: University of Notre Dame Press, 2001.
Williamson, Joel. The Crucible of Race: Black-White Relations n the American South since Emancipation. New York: Oxford University Press, 1984.
Caroline WaldronMerithew
Further Reading (Articles)
Lynchings, Encyclopedia of the Great Depression; January 1, 2004
Lynching in the West: 1850-1935, The Journal of Southern History; May 1, 2008; Estes, Steve
Lynching beyond Dixie: American Mob Violence outside the South, Journal of the Illinois State Historical Society; April 1, 2014; Brundage, W. Fitzhugh
Lynching’s Legacy in American Culture, The Mississippi Quarterly; January 1, 2008; Wood, Amy Louise Donaldson, Susan V.
Lynching Law Has Unintended Results; Blacks in S.C. Are Often Charged With Violating Law Enacted to Protect Them, The Washington Post; June 8, 2003; Allen G. Breed
Lynching in the New South: Georgia and Virginia, 1880-1930., The Mississippi Quarterly; September 22, 1994; Foster, Gaines M.
Lynching and Spectacle: Witnessing Racial Violence in America, 1890-1940, The Journal of Southern History; February 1, 2011; Jackson, Robert
Lynching Victim Hangs Above White Crowd, Crime and Punishment: Essential Primary Sources; January 1, 2006
Lynching in Colorado, 1859-1919/The Many Faces of Judge Lynch: Extralegal Violence and Punishment in America, The Journal of Southern History; May 1, 2004; Feldman, Glenn
Lynching in America: A History in Documents, The Journal of Southern History; August 1, 2007; Capeci, Dominic J Jr
LYNCHING IN AMERICA’S GRIM LEGACY.(Entertainment/Weekend/Spotlight)(Review), Rocky Mountain News (Denver, CO); January 18, 2002
Lynching, St. James Encyclopedia of Popular Culture; January 1, 200
Anti-Lynching Legislation, Encyclopedia of the Great Depression; January 1, 2004
WHERE LYNCHING STILL LIVES, The Boston Globe (Boston, MA); June 22, 2005; DANIEL M. GOLDSTEIN
Lethal Punishment: Lynchings and Legal Executions in the South, Law & Society Review; March 1, 2007; Clark, Timothy W.
Without Sanctuary: Lynching Photography in America / Without Sanctuary: Lynching Photography in America, The Journal of Southern History; February 1, 2002; Maxwell, Louise P
James H. Madison, A Lynching in the Heartland: Race and Memory in America.(Book Review), American Studies International; February 1, 2004; Kieran, David
S.C.’s lynching law now used mostly against blacks, Sunday Gazette-Mail; May 18, 2003; Allen G. Breed
Rough Justice: Lynching and American Society, 1874-1947, The Journal of Southern History; August 1, 2006; Finnegan, Terence
The Making of a Lynching Culture: Violence and Vigilantism in Central Texas, 1836-1916.(Book Review), Journal of Social History; December 22, 2005; Vandal, Gilles
Lynching in relation to Crime and Race
Lynching is included in the Encyclopedia of Race and Crime (1), beginning with: Lynching involves mob violence that is done under the guise of vigilante justice. It has played an extraordinarily important role in American history. For example, from the end of the Civil War in 1865 through the middle of the 20th century, African Americans were subjected to horrific lynchings, often sanctioned by the state, that were aimed at keeping them in their “proper place” in the political, economic, social, cultural, and legal order. “Nigger hunts” and “coon barbecues” were carefully calculated to achieve a common end: limiting the rights of free Blacks, forcing them into submission, and returning them to their pre-Civil War slave status. It should be noted that lynching also occurred in the western United States, with Latinos, Native Americans, and Asian Americans being the targets of the violence. This section focuses primarily on lynching targeted at African Americans in the southern United States. Each lynching was wholly unique.
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Notes and References
- Entry about Lynching in the Encyclopedia of Race and Crime
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