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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. |
| More information: |
Abstract:
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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- Marion (Ind.) -- Race relations.
- African Americans -- Indiana -- Marion -- Social conditions -- 20th century.
- Lynching -- Indiana -- Marion -- History -- 20th century.
- Cameron, James, -- 1914-2006.
- African Americans -- Indiana -- Marion -- Biography.
- Racism -- Indiana -- Marion -- History -- 20th century.
- Lynchen.