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Racial Violence in Kentucky: Lynchings, Mob Rule, and Legal Lynchings
Contributor(s): Wright, George C. (Author)
ISBN: 0807120731     ISBN-13: 9780807120736
Publisher: LSU Press
OUR PRICE:   $21.80  
Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats
Published: February 1996
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Annotation: The story of the men, women, and children who suffered the scourge of racial oppression in the Bluegrass State from the end of the Civil War to 1940.
Additional Information
BISAC Categories:
- True Crime
- Social Science
Dewey: 364.134
LCCN: 89038651
Physical Information: 0.77" H x 6" W x 8.94" (1.10 lbs) 368 pages
Themes:
- Cultural Region - Southeast U.S.
- Geographic Orientation - Kentucky
 
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Publisher Description:

Wright vividly portrays the clash between racist militants and blacks who would not submit to terror. The book makes clear the brutality concealed beneath the surface veneer of moderation. -- Journal of Southern History
In this investigative look into Kentucky's race relations from the end of the Civil War to 1940, George C. Wright brings to light a consistent pattern of legally sanctioned and extralegal violence employed to ensure that blacks knew their place after the war.
In the first study of its kind to target the racial patterns of a specific state, Wright demonstrates that despite Kentucky's proximity to the North, its black population was subjected to racial oppression every bit as severe and prolonged as that found farther south. His examination of the causes and extent of racial violence, and of the steps taken by blacks and concerned whites to end the brutality, has implications for race relations throughout the United States.