Lynching in Virginia (eBook)

Racial Terror and Its Legacy

Gianluca de Fazio (Herausgeber)

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2024
348 Seiten
University of Virginia Press (Verlag)
978-0-8139-5117-1 (ISBN)

Infos

Uncovering the history and examining the legacy of lynching in the state of Virginia Although not as associated with lynching as other southern states, Virginia has a tragically extensive history with these horrific crimes. This important volume examines the more than one hundred people who were lynched in Virginia between 1866 and 1932. Its diverse set of contributorsincluding scholars, journalists, activists, and studentsrecover this wider history of lynching in Virginia, interrogate its legacy, and spotlight contemporary efforts to commemorate the victims of racial terror across the commonwealth. Together, their essays represent a small part of the growing effort to come to terms with the role Virginia played in perpetuating America's national shame.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 22.8.2024
• Reihe/Serie: The American South Series
• Reihe/Serie: The American South Series
• Nachwort: W. Fitzhugh Brundage
• Zusatzinfo: 9 b&w illus., 5 graphs, 1 table
• Sprache: englisch
• Maße: 150 x 150 mm
• Themenwelt: Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Geschichte / Politik ► Regional- / Landesgeschichte
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Ethnologie
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Pädagogik
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie
• Schlagworte: African Americans • African Studies • AlbemarleCharlottesville Community Remembrance Project • Albemarle County • Alexandria • Alexandria Community Remembrance Project • Alexandria Gazette • alleghany county • antilynching campaign • antilynching laws • assault accusations • Benjamin Thomas lynching • Big Stone Gap Post • black collective memory • Black Community • Black men • Black Newspapers • Buchanan County • Capital punishment • Charles Triplett O’Ferrall • Charles W. Miller lynching • Charlotte Harris lynching • Charlottesville • Clifton Forge • Clifton Forge lynchings • Clinch Valley News • Confederate monuments • Confederate nostalgia and Lost Causers • Crime • Deep South • display of lynched victims • drawings of lynching victims • electric chair use in executions • Equal Justice Initiative • Fitzhugh Brundage • Freedmen’s Bureau • George K. Anderson • History • history of lynching • impunity of lynchers • Jim Crow • Jim Crow South • John Henry James lynching • john mitchell jr • Joseph McCoy lynching • Judicial System • Law enforcement • legal lynching • lynchers • lynching • lynching postcards • militias • miners and mining • miscegenation laws • mob violence • Murder • NAACP • Newspapers • oral history on lynchings • Police brutality • prevention of lynchings • racial identity • racialized terror and intimidation • racial violence • rape accusations lead to lynching • Raymond Arthur Byrd lynching • reflection • Richmond Planet • Roanoke • Robert Burton lynching • Robert Foy • rockingham county • Rule of Law • Russell County • slavery and abolition • Social • South • southern history • southwest virginia • Staunton • Tazewell County • threatened lynchings • Unite the Right rally • UVA • Violence
• ISBN-10: 0-8139-5117-8 / 0813951178
• ISBN-13: 978-0-8139-5117-1 / 9780813951171