Making of a Lynching Culture Violence and Vigilantism in Central Texas, 1836-1916

Name: Making of a Lynching Culture Violence and Vigilantism in Central Texas, 1836-1916
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ISBN: 9780252074301

ISBN-10: 0252074300

ISBN-13: 9780252074301

Edition: 2006

Authors: William D. Carrigan

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On May 15, 1916, a crowd of 15,000 witnessed the lynching of an eighteen-year-old black farm worker named Jesse Washington. Most central Texans of the time failed to call for the punishment of the mob's leaders. In The Making of a Lynching Culture, William D. Carrigan seeks to explain not how a fiendish mob could lynch one man but how a culture of violence that nourished this practice could form and endure for so long among ordinary people. Beginning as far back as the 1836 independence of Texas, The Making of a Lynching Culture reexamines traditional explanations of lynching, including the role of the frontier, economic tensions, and political conflicts. It also addresses acts of violence…

Book details

List price: $28.00
Copyright year: 2006
Publisher: University of Illinois Press
Publication date: 8/28/2006
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 328
Size: 6.00" wide x 9.00" long x 1.00" tall
Weight: 1.100
Language: English