A Lynching in the Heartland: Race and Memory in America

A Lynching in the Heartland: Race and Memory in America
ISBN-10
1403961212
ISBN-13
9781403961211
Category
History
Pages
222
Language
English
Published
2003-01-31
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Author
NA NA

Description

On a hot summer night in 1930, three black teenagers accused of murdering a young white man and raping his girlfriend waited for justice in an Indiana jail. A mob dragged them from the jail and lynched two of them. No one in Marion, Indiana was ever punished for the murders. In this gripping account, James H. Madison refutes the popular perception that lynching was confined to the South, and clarifies 20th century America's painful encounters with race, justice, and memory.

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