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Hostile heartland : racism, repression, and resistance in the Midwest /

We forget that racist violence permeated the lower Midwest from the pre-Civil War period until the 1930s. From Kansas to Ohio, whites orchestrated extraordinary events like lynchings and riots while engaged in a spectrum of brutal acts made all the more horrific by being routine. Also forgotten is t...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Campney, Brent M. S. (Author)
Format:	Book
Language:	English
Published:	Urbana : University of Illinois Press, [2019]
Subjects:	African Americans > Middle West > History. Racism > Middle West. Middle West > History. African Americans > Civil rights > History > 20th century.

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