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Racial violence in Kentucky, 1865-1940 : lynchings, mob rule, and "legal lynchings" /

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Wright, George C.
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Baton Rouge : Louisiana State University Press, [1990]
Subjects:
Lynching > Kentucky > History.
Discrimination in capital punishment > Kentucky > History.
African Americans > Crimes against > Kentucky > History.
Discrimination in criminal justice administration > Kentucky > History.
Kentucky > Race relations.
Table of Contents:
  • Reconstruction: using violence to preserve the status quo, 1865-1874
  • Lynchings are necessary, 1875-1899
  • To hang in an orderly fashion, 1900-1940
  • Ousting troublemakers
  • Holding back a rising tide, 1875-1899
  • Meeting mob violence with renewed determination, 1900-1940
  • A sacrifice upon the altar of the law, 1875-1899
  • Color-coded justice: racial violence under the law, 1900-1940.