Hanging Bridge - Racial Violence and America's Civil Rights Century

Informationen zum Autor Jason Morgan Ward is Associate Professor of History at Mississippi State University. He is the author of Defending White Democracy: The Making of a Segregationist Movement and the Remaking of Racial Politics, 1936-1965. Klappentext Spanning three generations, Hanging Bridge reveals what happened in Clarke County, Mississippi in 1919 and 1942, when two horrific lynchings took place. The first the first of four young people, including a pregnant woman and the second, of two teenaged boys accused of harassing a white girl.

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• Authors: Jason Morgan Ward, Jason Morgan Ward
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 30.09.2018
• EAN: 9780190905842
• ISBN: 978-0-19-090584-2
• No. of pages: 344
• Subjects: Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous; Amerikanische Geschichte, Afrikanische Geschichte, True Crime, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Minority Studies, TRUE CRIME / General, HISTORY / African American, History - U.S., USA Süden, South Atlantic States, HISTORY / United States / State & Local / South (AL, AR, FL, GA, KY, LA, MS, NC, SC, TN, VA, WV), SOCIAL SCIENCE / Violence in Society, Local History, Social discrimination & inequality, Ethnic groups and multicultural studies, Violence in society, History of the Americas, Ethnic minorities & multicultural studies, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Discrimination, Violence and abuse in society, Central Southern States, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Biracial & Multiracial Studies, US South, Social discrimination and social justice