Lynchings In Mississippi

Author : Julius E. Thompson
Publisher : McFarland
Page : 259 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2015-06-08
Category : History
ISBN : 9781476604251

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Lynchings in Mississippi by Julius E. Thompson Pdf

Lynching occurred more in Mississippi than in any other state. During the 100 years after the Civil War, almost one in every ten lynchings in the United States took place in Mississippi. As in other Southern states, these brutal murders were carried out primarily by white mobs against black victims. The complicity of communities and courts ensured that few of the more than 500 lynchings in Mississippi resulted in criminal convictions. This book studies lynching in Mississippi from the Civil War through the civil rights movement. It examines how the crime unfolded in the state and assesses the large number of deaths, the reasons, the distribution by counties, cities and rural locations, and public responses to these crimes. The final chapter covers lynching’s legacy in the decades since 1965; an appendix offers a chronology.

Author : Julius Eric Thompson
Publisher : University Press of America
Page : 364 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : History
ISBN : 0761819223

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Black Life in Mississippi by Julius Eric Thompson Pdf

Black Life in Mississippi is a collection of essays which explore the underexposed life and culture of black Mississippians between the 1860's and the 1980's.

Author : Jason Morgan Ward
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 345 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2016
Category : HISTORY
ISBN : 9780199376568

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Hanging Bridge by Jason Morgan Ward Pdf

"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 ... Ward ... 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"--

Author : Terence Finnegan
Publisher : University of Virginia Press
Page : 359 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2013
Category : History
ISBN : 9780813933849

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A Deed So Accursed by Terence Finnegan Pdf

From the end of Reconstruction to the onset of the civil rights era, lynching was prevalent in developing and frontier regions that had a dynamic and fluid African American population. Focusing on Mississippi and South Carolina because of the high proportion of African Americans in each state during "the age of lynching," Terence Finnegan explains lynching as a consequence of the revolution in social relations--assertiveness, competition, and tension--that resulted from emancipation. A comprehensive study of lynching in Mississippi and South Carolina, A Deed So Accursed reveals the economic and social circumstances that spawned lynching and explores the interplay between extralegal violence and political and civil rights. Finnegan's research shows that lynching rates depended on factors other than caste conflict and the interaction of race and southern notions of honor. Although lynching supported the ends of white supremacy, many mobs lynched more for private retaliation than for communal motives, which explains why mobs varied greatly in size, organization, behavior, and purpose. The resistance of African Americans was vigorous and sustained and took on a variety of forms, but depending on the circumstances, black resistance could sometimes provoke rather than deter lynching. Ultimately, Finnegan shows how out of the tragedy of lynching came the triumph of the civil rights movement, which was built upon the organizational efforts of African American anti-lynching campaigns.

Author : Craig Thompson Friend,Lorri Glover
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 293 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2015
Category : History
ISBN : 9781107084209

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Death and the American South by Craig Thompson Friend,Lorri Glover Pdf

Death and the American South is an edited collection of twelve never-before-published essays, featuring leading senior scholars as well as influential up-and-coming historians. The contributors use a variety of methodological approaches for their research and explore different parts of the South and varying themes in history.

Author : Ersula J. Ore
Publisher : Univ. Press of Mississippi
Page : 153 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2019-03-12
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781496821607

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Lynching by Ersula J. Ore Pdf

Winner of the 2020 Rhetoric Society of America Book Award While victims of antebellum lynchings were typically white men, postbellum lynchings became more frequent and more intense, with the victims more often black. After Reconstruction, lynchings exhibited and embodied links between violent collective action, American civic identity, and the making of the nation. Ersula J. Ore investigates lynching as a racialized practice of civic engagement, in effect an argument against black inclusion within the changing nation. Ore scrutinizes the civic roots of lynching, the relationship between lynching and white constitutionalism, and contemporary manifestations of lynching discourse and logic today. From the 1880s onward, lynchings, she finds, manifested a violent form of symbolic action that called a national public into existence, denoted citizenship, and upheld political community. Grounded in Ida B. Wells’s summation of lynching as a social contract among whites to maintain a racial order, at its core, Ore’s book speaks to racialized violence as a mode of civic engagement. Since violence enacts an argument about citizenship, Ore construes lynching and its expressions as part and parcel of America’s rhetorical tradition and political legacy. Drawing upon newspapers, official records, and memoirs, as well as critical race theory, Ore outlines the connections between what was said and written, the material practices of lynching in the past, and the forms these rhetorics and practices assume now. In doing so, she demonstrates how lynching functioned as a strategy interwoven with the formation of America’s national identity and with the nation’s need to continually restrict and redefine that identity. In addition, Ore ties black resistance to lynching, the acclaimed exhibit Without Sanctuary, recent police brutality, effigies of Barack Obama, and the killing of Trayvon Martin.

Author : National Association for the Advancement of Colored People
Publisher : Praeger
Page : 120 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 1969
Category : History
ISBN : UOM:39015005977676

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Thirty Years of Lynching in the United States, 1889-1918 by National Association for the Advancement of Colored People Pdf

Author : Howard Smead
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 276 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 1986
Category : History
ISBN : 0195054296

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Blood Justice by Howard Smead Pdf

Reconstructs the case of Mack Charles Parker, a young African-American man who was lynched by a white mob in 1959 after being charged with the rape of a white woman in Poplarville, Mississippi

Author : T. J. Ray
Publisher : Tj Ray
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2023-03-23
Category : History
ISBN : 9798218054991

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No Legal Defense by T. J. Ray Pdf

This collection is the culmination of the "vague idea" that presented itself during my research on the Mathis-Lester case. It does not pretend to be comprehensive, but is purposefully limited to the crime of lynching in the State of Mississippi in the period 1835 to 1964.

Author : Terence Finnegan
Publisher : University of Virginia Press
Page : 362 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2013-02-11
Category : History
ISBN : 9780813933856

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A Deed So Accursed by Terence Finnegan Pdf

From the end of Reconstruction to the onset of the civil rights era, lynching was prevalent in developing and frontier regions that had a dynamic and fluid African American population. Focusing on Mississippi and South Carolina because of the high proportion of African Americans in each state during "the age of lynching," Terence Finnegan explains lynching as a consequence of the revolution in social relations—assertiveness, competition, and tension—that resulted from emancipation. A comprehensive study of lynching in Mississippi and South Carolina, A Deed So Accursed reveals the economic and social circumstances that spawned lynching and explores the interplay between extralegal violence and political and civil rights. Finnegan's research shows that lynching rates depended on factors other than caste conflict and the interaction of race and southern notions of honor. Although lynching supported the ends of white supremacy, many mobs lynched more for private retaliation than for communal motives, which explains why mobs varied greatly in size, organization, behavior, and purpose. The resistance of African Americans was vigorous and sustained and took on a variety of forms, but depending on the circumstances, black resistance could sometimes provoke rather than deter lynching. Ultimately, Finnegan shows how out of the tragedy of lynching came the triumph of the civil rights movement, which was built upon the organizational efforts of African American anti-lynching campaigns.

Author : David M. Oshinsky
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 324 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 1997-04-22
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781439107744

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Worse Than Slavery by David M. Oshinsky Pdf

In this sensitively told tale of suffering, brutality, and inhumanity, Worse Than Slavery is an epic history of race and punishment in the deepest South from emancipation to the Civil Rights Era—and beyond. Immortalized in blues songs and movies like Cool Hand Luke and The Defiant Ones, Mississippi’s infamous Parchman State Penitentiary was, in the pre-civil rights south, synonymous with cruelty. Now, noted historian David Oshinsky gives us the true story of the notorious prison, drawing on police records, prison documents, folklore, blues songs, and oral history, from the days of cotton-field chain gangs to the 1960s, when Parchman was used to break the wills of civil rights workers who journeyed south on Freedom Rides.

Author : Berkley Hudson
Publisher : UNC Press Books
Page : 269 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2021-12-17
Category : Photography
ISBN : 9781469662718

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O. N. Pruitt's Possum Town by Berkley Hudson Pdf

Photographer O. N. Pruitt (1891–1967) was for some forty years the de facto documentarian of Lowndes County, Mississippi, and its county seat, Columbus--known to locals as "Possum Town." His body of work recalls many FSA photographers, but Pruitt was not an outsider with an agenda; he was a community member with intimate knowledge of the town and its residents. He photographed his fellow white citizens and Black ones as well, in circumstances ranging from the mundane to the horrific: family picnics, parades, river baptisms, carnivals, fires, funerals, two of Mississippi's last public and legal executions by hanging, and a lynching. From formal portraits to candid images of events in the moment, Pruitt's documentary of a specific yet representative southern town offers viewers today an invitation to meditate on the interrelations of photography, community, race, and historical memory. Columbus native Berkley Hudson was photographed by Pruitt, and for more than three decades he has considered and curated Pruitt's expansive archive, both as a scholar of media and visual journalism and as a community member. This stunning book presents Pruitt's photography as never before, combining more than 190 images with a biographical introduction and Hudson's short essays and reflective captions on subjects such as religion, ethnic identity, the ordinary graces of everyday life, and the exercise of brutal power.

Author : Timothy B. Tyson
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2017-01-31
Category : History
ISBN : 9781476714844

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The Blood of Emmett Till by Timothy B. Tyson Pdf

Draws on firsthand testimonies and recovered court transcripts to present a scholarly account of the 1955 lynching of Emmett Till and its role in launching the civil rights movement.

Author : Neil R. McMillen
Publisher : University of Illinois Press
Page : 468 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 1990
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 025206156X

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Dark Journey by Neil R. McMillen Pdf

"Remarkable for its relentless truth-telling, and the depth and thoroughness of its investigation, for the freshness of its sources, and for the shock power of its findings. Even a reader who is not unfamiliar with the sources and literature of the subject can be jolted by its impact."--C. Vann Woodward, New York Review of Books "Dark Journey is a superb piece of scholarship, a book that all students of southern and African-American history will find valuable and informative."--David J. Garrow, Georgia Historical Quarterly

Author : John Edgar Wideman
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 208 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2016-11-15
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781501147289

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Writing to Save a Life by John Edgar Wideman Pdf

Wideman "traces the life of the father of iconic civil rights martyr Emmett Till--a man who was executed by the Army ten years before Emmett's murder--presenting an ... exploration of individual and collective memory in America by one of the most formidable black intellectuals of our time"--Amazon.com.