At the Hands of Persons Unknown The Lynching of Black America

Name: At the Hands of Persons Unknown The Lynching of Black America
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ISBN: 9780375754456

ISBN-10: 0375754458

ISBN-13: 9780375754456

Edition: 2003

Authors: Philip Dray

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Winner of the Southern Book Critics Circle Award for Nonfiction This extraordinary account of lynching in America, by acclaimed civil rights historian Philip Dray, shines a clear, bright light on American history’s darkest stain—illuminating its causes, perpetrators, apologists, and victims. Philip Dray also tells the story of the men and women who led the long and difficult fight to expose and eradicate lynching, including Ida B. Wells, James Weldon Johnson, Walter White, and W.E.B. Du Bois. If lynching is emblematic of what is worst about America, their fight may stand for what is best: the commitment to justice and fairness and the conviction that one individual’s sense of right can…

Book details

List price: $20.00
Copyright year: 2003
Publisher: Random House Publishing Group
Publication date: 1/7/2003
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 560
Size: 5.20" wide x 8.03" long x 1.18" tall
Weight: 0.858
Language: English