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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Urbana :
University of Illinois Press,
[2019]
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Table of Contents:
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- The antebellum old Northwest: "For the white man, and the white man only"
- Illinois and the legacy of antebellum racist violence: "the peculiar climate of this region"
- Indiana during Reconstruction: "this negro elephant is getting to be a pretty large sized animal"
- Black families and resistance in Kansas, 1880-1905: "There is nothing like reputation"
- Missouri's Little Dixie, 1899-1921: "they flog a negro up there every week"
- The Missouri Ozarks and beyond, 1894-1930: "whence all negroes have been driven forth"
- The old Northwest, 1890s-1930s: "if we do our duty no mob can ever get into this jail"
- The midwest in the late lynching period: "a queer precipitate of the old and the new"
- Conclusion
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index.