Troubled ground
Subtitle: a tale of murder, lynching, and reckoning in the New South
By: Claude A. Clegg III
Publisher: University of Illinois Press
Published: 2010
Place of publication: Urbana, Ill
Language: eng
Number of pages: 224
ISBN-13: 9780252035883; 9780252077821
Description: The author revists a violent episode in his hometown's history that made national headlines in the early 20th century but disappeared from public consciousness over the decades. He offers insights into Southern history, mob violence and the formation of American race ideology while coming to terms with the violence of the past.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Prologue : searching for a troubled past; title: Bygones; title: Old demons of the New South; title: The reaping; title: Presumed guilt; title: A blot upon the state; title: A reckoning; title: Epilogue : New South, Old South.