African Americans Confront Lynching: Strategies of Resistance from the Civil War to the Civil Rights Era

by Christopher Waldrep

Book Overview

This book examines African Americans' strategies for resisting white racial violence from the Civil War until the assassination of Martin Luther King, Jr., in 1968 and up to the Clinton era. Christopher Waldrep's semi-biographical approach to the pioneers in the anti-lynching campaign portrays African Americans as active participants in the effort to end racial violence rather than as passive victims.

In telling this more than 100-year-old...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 074255273X
• ISBN13: 9780742552739
• Release Date: November 2009
• Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
• Length: 232 Pages
• Weight: 0.87 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.1" x 8.9"