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The Making of a Lynching Culture: Violence and Vigilantism in Central Texas, 1836-1916
William D. Carrigan
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Paperback. On May 15, 1916, a crowd of 15,000 witnessed the lynching of an 18-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. This work seeks to explain how a culture of violence that nourished this practice could form and endure for so long among ordinary people. Num Pages: 328 pages, 5 photographs. BIC Classification: 1KBBSX; 3JH; 3JJC; HBTB; JKV. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 230 x 153 x 22. Weight in Grams: 506.
How a culture of violence legitimized lynching among ordinary people
How a culture of violence legitimized lynching among ordinary people
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2006
Publisher
University of Illinois Press United States
Number of pages
328
Condition
New
Number of Pages
328
Place of Publication
Baltimore, United States
ISBN
9780252074301
SKU
V9780252074301
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About William D. Carrigan
William D. Carrigan is an associate professor of history at Rowan University in Glassboro, New Jersey, and the editor of Lynching Reconsidered: New Directions in the Study of Mob Violence.
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Winner of the Richard L. Wentworth Prize in American History, 2005.