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* Read ! Lynching in the New South: Georgia and Virginia, 1880-1930 (Blacks in the New World) by W. Fitzhugh Brundage Ö eBook or Kindle ePUB. Lynching in the New South: Georgia and Virginia, 1880-1930 (Blacks in the New World) Based on analysis of nearly 600 cases, this volume offers a full appraisal of the complex character of lynching. An original aspect of this work demonstrates the role blacks played in combatting lynching, either by flight, protest, or organized opposition which culminated in the expansion of the NAACP.]
| Title | : | Lynching in the New South: Georgia and Virginia, 1880-1930 (Blacks in the New World) |
| Author | : | |
| Rating | : | 4.13 (879 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0252063457 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 400 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2013-09-27 |
| Language | : | English |
A Customer said A compelling and well-documented work on an evasive subject. I read Brundage's book in a graduate seminar which dealt with the history of the South in the twentieth century. Researching the practice of lynching in the South can be a very evasive and hard-to-document subject but Brundage effectively overcomes this hurdle with the most obvious and informative mediums, newspapers and eyewitness accounts. His strategy of classifying the various modes of lynching and the accompanying use of graphs and charts furth. Terror American Style A Customer Fading into the indistinct memory of collective American consciousness the tragedy of American lynching is brought once again into a stark and repulsive focus with W. Fitzhugh Brundage's Lynching the in the New South. As Brundage quickly points out in his introduction, for better than a quarter of the history of the United States our great national crime was lynching. This was not the vaguely socially approved antiseptic lynching of Hollywood wester. "Good info" according to j. Really not sure why one reviewer felt the need to grandstand about northern racismthis book does exactly what it says, and is a valuable resource.
Based on analysis of nearly 600 cases, this volume offers a full appraisal of the complex character of lynching. An original aspect of this work demonstrates the role blacks played in combatting lynching, either by flight, protest, or organized opposition which culminated in the expansion of the NAACP.
Focusing on Virginia, which had the fewest lynchings in the South, and Georgia, which had a particularly violent history, Brundage notes that Georgia mobs, unlike Virginia mobs, would lynch for minor transgressions. In Virginia, diversified agriculture required day labor, which lessened racial conflict while keeping black workers on a short leash. Copyright 1993 Reed Business Information, Inc. . In Virginia, Brundage shows, anti-lynching efforts were sponsored by conservative government official
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