They left great marks on me
Subtitle: African American testimonies of racial violence from emancipation to World War I
By: Kidada E. Williams
Publisher: New York University Press
Published: 2012
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 281
ISBN-13: 9780814795354; 9780814795361; 9780814795378; 9780814784860
Subjects: Lynching; Violence against; African Americans; Racism; History
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: The "special object(s) of hatred and persecution" : the terror of emancipation; title: "A long series of oppression, injustice, and violence" : the purgatory of sectional reconciliation; title: "Lynched, burned alive, Jim-Crowed in my country" : shaping responses to the descent to hell; title: "If you can, the colored needs help" : reaching out from local communities; title: "It is not for us to run away from violence" : fueling the NAACP's antilynching; title: Crusade; title: Epilogue : closer to the promised land.