They left great marks on me African American testimonies of racial violence from emancipation to World War I /

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Main Author: Williams, Kidada E.
Corporate Author: ebrary, Inc
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: New York : New York University Press, c2012.
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Table of Contents:
  • 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.