Lynching and spectacle : witnessing racial violence in America, 1890-1940 /

Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Wood, Amy Louise, 1967- (Author)
Format:	eBook
Language:	English
Published:	Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, [2009]
Series:	New directions in southern studies. History of capital punishment. UNC Press law publications. Civil rights and social justice.
Subjects:	Lynching > United States > History. Violence > United States > History. Hate crimes > United States > History. United States > Race relations > History. Electronic books.
Online Access:	Connect to the full text of this electronic book

Table of Contents:

They want to see the thing done : public executions
A hell of fire upon earth : religion
The spectator has a picture in his mind to remember for a long time : photography
They never witnessed such a melodrama : early moving pictures
With the roar of thunder : The birth of a nation
We wanted to be boosters and not knockers : photography and antilynching activism
Bring home to America what mob violence really means : Hollywood's spectacular indictment.