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A lynching at Port Jervis : race and reckoning in the Gilded Age

text A lynching at Port Jervis : race and reckoning in the Gilded Age

Summary

"A book on a lynching that took place in New York in 1892, forcing the North to reckon with its own racism and eventually inspiring a powerful novella by Stephen Crane"--

Contents

Introduction -- June 2, 1892 -- City in Progress -- A Shadow Cast over My Sunshade -- "I Am Not the Man" -- Southern Methods Outdone -- The Vigorous Pen of Ida B. Wells -- Inquest -- The Author of My Misfortune -- The Blunders of Virtue -- Epilogue.

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Description
260 pages : illustrations, map ; 24 cm
Publisher
Farrar, Straus and Giroux 2022

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Library Location Status
Woodmere (Main Branch) 364.1 DRA in Adult Non-fiction Available

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