On the courthouse lawn : confronting the legacy of lynching in the twenty-first century / Sherrilyn A. Ifill.

Author/creator Ifill, Sherrilyn A.
Format Book
Publication InfoBoston : Beacon Press, ©2007.
Descriptionxx, 204 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Supplemental ContentTable of contents only
Supplemental ContentPublisher description
Subjects

Contents pt. I. A season of madness: twentieth-century lynching on the Eastern Shore. A conversation on race: lynching and the courthouse lawn ; Mob rule on the shore, 1931-1933 ; A conspiracy of silence: ordinary people and complicity in lynching ; "The law in all its majesty" ; "Serving the peninsula": local newspapers and lynching -- pt. II. Truth and reconciliation for lynching in the twenty-first century. Reconciliation and lynching in international context ; Breaking the silence: "words are the most powerful tools of all" ; Confronting the role of institutions in racial/ethnic violence ; Reconciliation in the twenty-first century.
Local noteLittle-347983--305131054198/
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references (p. 179-191) and index.
LCCN 2006016618
ISBN0807009873 (hardcover : alk. paper)
ISBN9780807009871 (hardcover : alk. paper)
ISBN9780807009888 (pbk. : alk. paper)
ISBN0807009881 (pbk. : alk. paper)

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Joyner General Stacks HV6457 .I45 2007 ✔ Available Place Hold