A festival of violence : an analysis of Southern lynchings, 1882-1930 /
Tolnay, Stewart Emory.
Beck, E. M.,1945-
Urbana : University of Illinois Press,
c1995.
Includes bibliographical references (p. [277]-288) and index.
A legacy of racial violence -- A portrait of the lynching era, 1880-1930 -- Social threat, competition, and mob violence -- Lynching as popular justice -- The role of king cotton -- Southern politics and lynching, 1880-1900 -- The great migration and the demise of lynching -- The tragedy of lynching: an overview.
Lynching
African Americans