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A lynching in the heartland : race and memory in America
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A lynching in the heartland : race and memory in America

Author: James H Madison
Publisher: New York : Palgrave, 2001.
Edition/Format: Book : Biography : EnglishView all editions and formats
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On a hot summer night in 1930, three black teenagers accused of murdering a young white man and raping his girlfriend waited for justice in an Indiana jail. A mob dragged them from the jail and lynched two of them. No one in Marion, Indiana was ever punished for the murders. In this gripping account, James H. Madison refutes the popular perception that lynching was confined to the South, and clarifies 20th century Am Read more...

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Named Person: James Cameron
Material Type: Biography, Internet resource
Document Type: Book, Internet Resource
All Authors / Contributors: James H Madison
ISBN: 0312239025 9780312239022
OCLC Number: 45957986
Description: xii, 204 p. : ill., maps ; 25 cm.
Contents: A night of terror -- "Strange fruit" in the American democracy -- An ordinary place in time -- Lines of color, lines of community -- The stories begin -- "A fair mob" -- "All over now" -- Remembering -- The long lines of color.
Responsibility: James H. Madison.
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On a hot summer night in 1930, three black teenagers accused of murdering a young white man and raping his girlfriend waited for justice in an Indiana jail. A mob dragged them from the jail and lynched two of them. No one in Marion, Indiana was ever punished for the murders. In this gripping account, James H. Madison refutes the popular perception that lynching was confined to the South, and clarifies 20th century America's painful encounters with race, justice, and memory.--Publisher description.

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