They left great marks on me : African American testimonies of racial violence from emancipation to World War I /

Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Williams, Kidada E.
Format:	eBook
Language:	English
Published:	New York : New York University Press, [2012]
Subjects:	Racism > United States > History > 20th century. Lynching > United States > History. African Americans > Violence against > History > 20th century. African Americans > Violence against > History > 19th century. African Americans > History > 1877-1964. African Americans > History > 1863-1877. Electronic books.
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Table of Contents:

The "special object(s) of hatred and persecution" : the terror of emancipation
"A long series of oppression, injustice, and violence" : the purgatory of sectional reconciliation
"Lynched, burned alive, Jim-Crowed in my country" : shaping responses to the descent to hell
"If you can, the colored needs help" : reaching out from local communities
"It is not for us to run away from violence" : fueling the NAACP's antilynching
Crusade
Epilogue : closer to the promised land.