Lynchings in Missouri, 1803-1981
By: Harriet C. Frazier.
Publisher: McFarland & Co.
Published: 2009
Place of publication: Jefferson, N.C
Language: eng
Number of pages: 228
ISBN-13: 9780786436682
Subjects: Lynching -- Missouri -- History
Description: "At least 227 mob lynchings are identified, confirmed, and documented. Topics include: lynchings of Native Americans and African Americans; law enforcement efforts to punish lynchers; horse/hog stealing, bank robbery, murder, sex crimes, and other offenses for which whites were lynched; a still-unsolved 1981 lynching; 50 falsely reported, doubtful, and/or foiled lynchings, 1857-1930"--Provided by publisher.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: One native American and 17 white victims, 1803-1862; title: Slaves and free Blacks, 1818-1862; title: War aftermath, 1866-1869; title: More white victims than Black, 1870-1879; title: Law vs. mob : strenuous efforts to punish lynchers, 1872-1879; title: "The brute seized her" : Black victims, 1880-1889; title: Railroads end lynchings of horse thieves : white victims decrease, 1880-1889; title: Arranged media coverage and other obscenities : Black victims, 1890-1899; title: White victims, 1891-1899; title: Racism as scholarship to justify violence : 1900-1909; title: Black and white victims, 1910-1919; title: Declining numbers and Black victims only: 1920-1942; title: Conclusion : Missouri's last Lynching, 1981.