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On the courthouse lawn : confronting the legacy of lynching in the twenty-first century
- Title
- On the courthouse lawn : confronting the legacy of lynching in the twenty-first century / Sherrilyn A. Ifill.
- Author
- Ifill, Sherrilyn A.
- Publication
- Boston : Beacon Press, c2007.
- Supplementary Content
- Publisher description
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- Description
- xx, 204 p. : ill.; 24 cm.
- Subjects
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 179-191) and index.
- Contents
- pt. I. A season of madness: twentieth-century lynching on the Eastern Shore. A conversation on race: lynching and the courthouse lawn ; Mob rule on the shore, 1931-1933 ; A conspiracy of silence: ordinary people and complicity in lynching ; "The law in all its majesty" ; "Serving the peninsula": local newspapers and lynching -- pt. II. Truth and reconciliation for lynching in the twenty-first century. Reconciliation and lynching in international context ; Breaking the silence: "words are the most powerful tools of all" ; Confronting the role of institutions in racial/ethnic violence ; Reconciliation in the twenty-first century.
- Call Number
- Sc E 07-265
- ISBN
- 0807009873 (hardcover : alk. paper)
- 9780807009871 (hardcover : alk. paper)
- LCCN
- 2006016618
- OCLC
- 70060939
- Author
- Ifill, Sherrilyn A.
- Title
- On the courthouse lawn : confronting the legacy of lynching in the twenty-first century / Sherrilyn A. Ifill.
- Imprint
- Boston : Beacon Press, c2007.
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 179-191) and index.
- Connect to:
- Local Subject
- Black author.
- Research Call Number
- Sc E 07-265ILH 07-3466