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Ward, Jason Morgan.
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Lynching -- Mississippi -- Clarke County -- History -- 20th century.
Blacks -- Violence against -- Mississippi -- Clarke County -- History -- 20th century.
Blacks -- Civil rights -- Mississippi -- Clarke County -- History -- 20th century.
Racism -- Mississippi -- Clarke County -- History -- 20th century.
Civil rights movements -- Mississippi -- Clarke County -- History -- 20th century.
Clarke County (Miss.) -- Race relations -- History -- 20th century.
Shubuta (Miss.) -- Race relations -- History -- 20th century.
Shubuta (Miss.) -- Biography.
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Ward, Jason Morgan.
Lynching -- Mississippi -- Clarke County -- History -- 20th century.
Blacks -- Violence against -- Mississippi -- Clarke County -- History -- 20th century.
Blacks -- Civil rights -- Mississippi -- Clarke County -- History -- 20th century.
Racism -- Mississippi -- Clarke County -- History -- 20th century.
Civil rights movements -- Mississippi -- Clarke County -- History -- 20th century.
Clarke County (Miss.) -- Race relations -- History -- 20th century.
Shubuta (Miss.) -- Race relations -- History -- 20th century.
Shubuta (Miss.) -- Biography.
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Hanging bridge : racial violence and America's civil rights
century
/ Jason Morgan Ward.
by
Ward, Jason Morgan.
Oxford University Press, [2016]
Call #:
364.134 W259h
Subjects
Lynching
--
Mississippi
--
Clarke
County
--
History
--
20th
century
.
Blacks
--
Violence against
--
Mississippi
--
Clarke
County
--
History
--
20th
century
.
Blacks
--
Civil rights
--
Mississippi
--
Clarke
County
--
History
--
20th
century
.
Racism
--
Mississippi
--
Clarke
County
--
History
--
20th
century
.
Civil rights movements
--
Mississippi
--
Clarke
County
--
History
--
20th
century
.
Clarke
County
(
Miss
.)
--
Race
relations
--
History
--
20th
century
.
Shubuta (
Miss
.)
--
Race
relations
--
History
--
20th
century
.
Shubuta (
Miss
.)
--
Biography.
ISBN:
9780199376568 (hc.)
Description:
xv, 326 pages ; 25 cm
Bibliography:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents:
Part I: 1918
--
The Most Atrocious Affair of Its Kind
--
Not Made Safe
--
Part II: 1942
--
The Way You Treat Your Niggers
--
A Monument To "Judge Lynch"
--
Part III: 1966
--
The Formation Of An Ugly White Crowd
--
The Real Battle For Freedom
--
Epilogue.
Summary:
"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. Local African Americans knew why the movement failed there. Some spoke of a bottomless hole in the snaking Chickasawhay River in the town of Shubuta, where white vigilantes had for decades dumped the bodies of murdered African Americans. Others spoke of a 'hanging bridge' that spanned that same muddy creek. Spanning three generations, this book reveals what happened in
Clarke
Country in 1919 and 1942, when two horrific lynchings took place, the first of four young people, including a pregnant woman, the second, of two teenaged boys accused of harassing a white girl. The reconstruction of these events 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"--Provided by publisher.
Genre:
True crime.
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