Anti-Black violence in twentieth-century Texas
By: edited by Bruce A. Glasrud ; foreword by W. Marvin Dulaney
Edition: First edition.
Publisher: Texas A&M University Press
Published: 2015
Place of publication: College Station, Texas
Language: eng
Number of pages: 209
ISBN-13: 9781623493332; 9781623493349
Subjects: Violence against; Hate crimes; African Americans; Race relations; Crimes against; History
Notes: All contributions (except the Afterword) have been previously published in books or as articles.

Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction: Racism's ugly past; white Texas's twentieth century actions / Bruce A. Glasrud; title: Paris is burning: lynching and racial violence in Lamar County, 1890-1920 / Brandon Jett; title: An "exciting occurrence": the lynching / Patricia Bernstein; title: The Houston riot of 1917 / Calvin Smith; title: Violence in a heathen land: the Longview race riot of 1919 / William M. Tuttle Jr .; title: A "good job" in the early hours of the morning / Monte Akers; title: The Sherman courthouse riot of 1930 / Edward Hake Phillips; title: Violence in an "arsenal of democracy": the Beaumont race riot, 1943 / James A. Burran; title: Houston and the TSU riot /  Bernard Friedberg; title: Loyal Garner arrest / Howard Swindle; title: The Jasper lynching / Joyce E. King; title: Bust town / Nate Blakeslee; title: The beating of Billy Ray Johnson / Pamela Colloff; title: Afterword: Twenty-first century Texas race relations / Bruce A. Glasrud.