A lynching in the heartland
race and memory in America
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Word Count
51,000 words, Guess
Page Count
204 pages
Identifiers
- Internet Archivelynchinginheartl00madi
- Internet Archivelynchinginheartl0000madi
- ISBN-100312239025
- ISBN-139780312239022
- Library of Congress Control Number2001021826
and 3 more
- OCLC Control Number45957986
- Better World Books9780312239022
- Open LibraryOL3942429M
Classifications
- DDC305.896/0730772/52
- LCCF534.M34 M33 2001
- LCCF534.M34M33 2001
Description
""The first sounds the prisoners heard were murmurs and bits of conversation. Beginning around 6:30 P. M. on Thursday, August 7, 1930, the words grew louder as more and more people gathered on the sidewalk, street, and yard in front of the Grant County Jail in Marion, Indiana, 'Get'em,' some shouted."". "So begins James H. Madison's gripping story about a hot summer evening in the Midwest, where three black teenagers, accused of murdering a young white man and raping his white girlfriend, waited for justice in an Indiana jail. As the sun set a mob dragged the three prisoners from the jail to the courthouse square and lynched two of them. No one in Marion was ever punished for these murders.". "A Lynching in the Heartland is the story of that horrible night, and how Marion's black and white citizens dealt with the tragedy. Yet Madison has written much more than a book about lynching - this is a book about America's long and violent struggles with its color line."--BOOK JACKET.
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