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On the courthouse lawn : confronting the legacy of lynching in the twenty-first century

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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.
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xx, 204 p. : ill.; 24 cm.
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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.
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Black author.
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Sc E 07-265
ILH 07-3466
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