They left great marks on me [electronic resource] : African American testimonies of racial violence from emancipation to World War I / Kidada E. Williams.
Publication details: New York : New York University Press, c2012.Description: xii, 281 pISBN:- 9780814795361 (pb alk. paper)
- 9780814795354
- 9780814784686 (e-book)
- African Americans -- History -- 1863-1877
- African Americans -- History -- 1877-1964
- African Americans -- Violence against -- History -- 19th century
- African Americans -- Violence against -- History -- 20th century
- Lynching -- United States -- History
- Racism -- United States -- History -- 20th century
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- E185.2 .W67 2012eb
eBooks
Includes bibliographical references and index.
The "special object(s) of hatred and persecution" : the terror of emancipation -- "A long series of oppression, injustice, and violence" : the purgatory of sectional reconciliation -- "Lynched, burned alive, Jim-Crowed in my country" : shaping responses to the descent to hell -- "If you can, the colored needs help" : reaching out from local communities -- "It is not for us to run away from violence" : fueling the NAACP's antilynching -- Crusade -- Epilogue : closer to the promised land.
Electronic reproduction. Palo Alto, Calif. : ebrary, 2011. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ebrary affiliated libraries.