Troubled Ground: A Tale of Murder, Lynching, and Reckoning in the New South

by Claude Andrew Clegg III

Book Overview

In Troubled Ground, Claude A. Clegg III revisits a violent episode in his hometown's history that made national headlines in the early twentieth century but disappeared from public consciousness over the decades. Moving swiftly between memory and history, between the personal and the political, Clegg offers insights into southern history, mob violence, and the formation of American race ideology while coming to terms on a personal level with...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0252077822
• ISBN13: 9780252077821
• Release Date: October 2010
• Publisher: University of Illinois Press
• Length: 248 Pages
• Weight: 0.90 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.0" x 8.9"