| A Lynching in the Heartland: Race and Memory in America 2001 Edition Contributor(s): Na, Na (Author) |
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ISBN: 1403961212 ISBN-13: 9781403961211 Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan OUR PRICE: $42.74 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: January 2003 Annotation: On a hot summer night in 1930, three black teenagers accused of murdering a young white man and raping his girlfriend waited for justice in an Indiana jail. A mob dragged them from the jail and lynched two of them. No one in Marion, Indiana was ever punished for the murders. In this gripping account, James H. Madison refutes the popular perception that lynching was confined to the South, and clarifies 20th-century America's painful encounters with race, justice, and memory. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - History | United States - 20th Century - History | Modern - 20th Century - History | United States - State & Local - General |
| Dewey: 305.896 |
| Physical Information: 0.5" H x 6.77" W x 9.63" (0.89 lbs) 222 pages |
| Themes: - Chronological Period - 20th Century |
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| Publisher Description: On a hot summer night in 1930, three black teenagers accused of murdering a young white man and raping his girlfriend waited for justice in an Indiana jail. A mob dragged them from the jail and lynched two of them. No one in Marion, Indiana was ever punished for the murders. In this gripping account, James H. Madison refutes the popular perception that lynching was confined to the South, and clarifies 20th century America's painful encounters with race, justice, and memory. |