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Hanging bridge : racial violence and America's civil rights century /

"Even at the height of the civil rights movement in the 1960s, when the clarion call for equality and justice echoed around the country, few volunteers ventured into Clarke County, Mississippi. Fewer still remained. Located just south of Neshoba County, where three civil rights workers had been...

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Main Author: Ward, Jason Morgan, (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: New York, NY : Oxford University Press, [2016]
Subjects and Genres:
20th century.
Lynching > Mississippi > Clarke County > History > 20th century.
African Americans > Violence against > Mississippi > Clarke County > History > 20th century.
Racism > Mississippi > Clarke County > History > 20th century.
African Americans > Civil rights > Mississippi > Clarke County > History > 20th century.
Civil rights movements > Mississippi > Clarke County > History > 20th century.
Civil rights movements.
History.
African Americans > Civil rights.
Racism.
African Americans > Violence against.
Lynching.
Clarke County (Miss.) > Race relations > History > 20th century.
Shubuta (Miss.) > Race relations > History > 20th century.
Shubuta (Miss.) > Biography.
Mississippi > Clarke County.
Biographies.
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Table of Contents:
  • Part I: 1918
  • The Most Atrocious Affair of Its Kind
  • Not Made Safe
  • Part II: 1942
  • The Way You Treat Your Niggers
  • A Monument To "Judge Lynch"
  • Part III: 1966
  • The Formation Of An Ugly White Crowd
  • The Real Battle For Freedom
  • Epilogue.

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