Lynched : the victims of southern mob violence

On July 9, 1883, twenty men stormed the jail in Morehouse Parish, Louisiana, kidnapped Henderson Lee, a black man charged with larceny, and hanged him. Events like this occurred thousands of times across the American South in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, yet we know scarcely mo...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Bailey, Amy Kate
Format: EBOOK
Other Format: BOOK
Language:ENGLISH
Published: The University of North Carolina Press 2015
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