Legacies of Lynching

Racial Violence and Memory

by Jonathan Markovitz

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Published June 2004 by University of Minnesota Press .
Written in English

Subjects:

• Racism & racial discrimination,
• Race relations,
• Ethnic Studies - General,
• Social Science,
• Ethnic Issues,
• Violence against,
• Sociology,
• USA,
• Ethnic Studies - African American Studies - General,
• General,
• African Americans,
• Lynching,
• United States

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The Physical Object
Format	Paperback
Number of Pages	227
ID Numbers
Open Library	OL8070645M
ISBN 10	0816639957
ISBN 10	9780816639953

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In , James Allen published a collection of lynching photos in book form as well as online, with written words and video to accompany the images. Dyer Bill [ edit ] The Dyer Anti-Lynching Bill was first introduced to the United States Congress in by Republican . Lynching is the practice of murder by a group of people by extrajudicial action. Lynchings in the United States first became common in the South in the s, s, and s, at which time most of the victims were white men. Lynchings of blacks rose in number after the American Civil War during Reconstruction; they declined in the s. Most lynchings were of African-American men in the.   The lynching tree is a metaphor for white America’s crucifixion of black people. It is the window that best reveals the religious meaning of the cross in our land. In this sense, black people are Christ-figures, not because they wanted to suffer but because they had no choice. Just as Jesus had no choice in his journey to Calvary, so black people had no choice about being : James H. Cone.

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