| Description |
xx, 204 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 179-191) and index. |
| Contents |
pt. I. A season of madness: twentieth-century lynching on the Eastern Shore. A conversation on race: lynching and the courthouse lawn ; Mob rule on the shore, 1931-1933 ; A conspiracy of silence: ordinary people and complicity in lynching ; "The law in all its majesty" ; "Serving the peninsula": local newspapers and lynching -- pt. II. Truth and reconciliation for lynching in the twenty-first century. Reconciliation and lynching in international context ; Breaking the silence: "words are the most powerful tools of all" ; Confronting the role of institutions in racial/ethnic violence ; Reconciliation in the twenty-first century. |
| Subject |
Lynching -- United States -- History.
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Lynching. |
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United States. |
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History. |
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Lynching -- Maryland -- History.
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Maryland. |
| ISBN |
0807009873 hardcover alkaline paper |
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9780807009871 hardcover alkaline paper |
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