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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: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Oxford : Oxford University Press, [2016]
Subjects:
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.
Clarke County (Miss.) > Race relations > History > 20th century.
Shubuta (Miss.) > Race relations > History > 20th century.
Shubuta (Miss.) > Biography.
Electronic books.
Biographies.
Online Access: Full text (MFA users only)
ISBN:9780199376575
0199376573
9780199376582
0199376581
Local Note:ProQuest Ebook Central
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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