Racial Violence in Kentucky: Lynchings, Mob Rule, and Legal Lynchings

by George C., Wright and George C. Wright

Book Overview

Wright vividly portrays the clash between racist militants and blacks who would not submit to terror. The book makes clear the brutality concealed beneath the surface veneer of moderation. -- Journal of Southern History
In this investigative look into Kentucky's race relations from the end of the Civil War to 1940, George C. Wright brings to light a consistent pattern of legally sanctioned and extralegal violence employed to ensure that blacks...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0807120731
• ISBN13: 9780807120736
• Release Date: February 1996
• Publisher: LSU Press
• Length: 368 Pages
• Weight: 1.10 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.0" x 8.9"