Troubled Ground: A Tale of Murder, Lynching, and Reckoning in the New South - Couverture souple

Clegg, Claude A.

 
9780252077821: Troubled Ground: A Tale of Murder, Lynching, and Reckoning in the New South
Couverture souple
ISBN 10 : 0252077822 ISBN 13 : 9780252077821
Editeur : University of Illinois Press, 2010

Synopsis

In Troubled Ground, Claude A. Clegg III revisits a violent episode in his hometown's history that made national headlines in the early twentieth century but disappeared from public consciousness over the decades. Moving swiftly between memory and history, between the personal and the political, Clegg offers insights into southern history, mob violence, and the formation of American race ideology while coming to terms on a personal level with the violence of the past. Three black men were killed in front of a crowd of thousands in Salisbury, North Carolina, in 1906, following the ax murder of a local white family for whom the men had worked. One of the lynchers was prosecuted for his role in the execution, the first conviction of its kind in North Carolina and one of the earliest in the country. Yet Clegg, an academic historian who grew up in Salisbury, had never heard of the case until 2002 and could not find anyone else familiar with the case. In this book, Clegg mines newspaper accounts and government records and links the victims of the 1906 case to a double-lynching in 1902, suggesting a complex history of lynching in the area while revealing the determination of the city to rid its history of a shameful and shocking chapter. The result is a multi-layered, deeply personal exploration of lynching and lynching prosecutions in the United States.

Les informations fournies dans la section « Synopsis » peuvent faire référence à une autre édition de ce titre.

À propos de l?auteur

Claude A. Clegg III is a professor of history at Indiana University and the author of The Price of Liberty: African Americans and the Making of Liberia and An Original Man: The Life and Times of Elijah Muhammad.

Les informations fournies dans la section « A propos du livre » peuvent faire référence à une autre édition de ce titre.

Éditeur
University of Illinois Press
Date d'édition
2010
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
0252077822
ISBN 13 
9780252077821
Reliure
Broché
Nombre de pages
224
Coordonnées du fabricant
non disponible
Personne responsable
non disponible

Autres éditions populaires du même titre

9780252035883: Troubled Ground: A Tale of Murder, Lynching, and Reckoning in the New South

Edition présentée

ISBN 10 :  0252035887 ISBN 13 :  9780252035883
Editeur : University of Illinois Press, 2010
Couverture rigide