Lynched
Amy Kate Bailey, Stewart E. Tolnay
ISBN: | 9781469620886 |
Publisher: | The University of North Carolina Press |
Published: | 4 May, 2015 |
Format: | eBook |
Lynched
Amy Kate Bailey, Stewart E. Tolnay
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 more about any of these other victims than we do about Henderson Lee. Drawing on new sources to provide the most comprehensive portrait of the men and women lynched in the American South, Amy Bailey and
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