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Author Williams, Kidada E.

Title They left great marks on me [electronic resource] : African American testimonies of racial violence from emancipation to World War I / Kidada E. Williams.

Imprint New York : New York University Press, c2012.

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 Axe ProQuest E-Book  Electronic Book    ---  Available
Description xii, 281 p.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
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.
Reproduction Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, MI : ProQuest, 2015. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest affiliated libraries.
Subject 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.
Genre/Form Electronic books.
Added Author ProQuest (Firm)
ISBN 9780814795361 (pb alk. paper)
9780814795354
9780814784686 (electronic bk.)

 
    
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