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Thorough accounts and analyses of more than 20 lynchings that occurred in America during 1930, prepared by a commission composed of Southern scholars and investigators. Each lynching is examined in detail, including the formation of the mob, behavior of the police, and economic background of the area where the crime occurred.
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"Dr. Raper has constructed an unassailable thesis against a heinous crime we have too long ignored or of which we have thought too little."-America ?Dr. Raper has constructed an unassailable thesis against a heinous crime we have too long ignored or of which we have thought too little.?-America
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A reprint of the 1933 report of The Southern Commission on the Study of Lynching examines twenty incidents of lynching in the South and recreates the events of the crime, looks at community and government reaction, and draws conclusions about race relations for the area in question.
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Soft cover. Condition: As New. This is a fine, as new, 2003 Dover paperback reprint of the 1933 UNC edition. 499 pages. A survey of situation in 1930. Not the end of lynchings as there was a lynching in my home county in NW Missouri the year I was born. Seller Inventory # 105053
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