100 Years of Lynchings

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Summary: You Must Read This Book
Review: 100 Years of Lynchings obviously won't make you feel good but it an absolutely necessary book to have in your collection if you are serious student of American history.

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Summary: Primary Sources on Lynching
Review: Given its politically and culturally loaded history, lynching is one of the most difficult topics to teach in American universities. Ginzburg's book makes the job easier by providing the instructor with primary documents with which to examine the phenomenon. In particular, Ginzburg's collection is useful because it draws upon newspaper articles intended for a number of constituencies. Some, directed at racist whites, cheer the lynchings. Meanwhile, black newspapers and those directed at more progressive whites decry the practice. As such, the collection is a perfect tool for examing the place of lynching within various US communities in the latter 19th and early 20th century. Even more excellent when combined with the visual record of _No Sanctuary_.

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Summary: Primary Sources on Lynching
Review: Given its politically and culturally loaded history, lynching is one of the most difficult topics to teach in American universities. Ginzburg's book makes the job easier by providing the instructor with primary documents with which to examine the phenomenon. In particular, Ginzburg's collection is useful because it draws upon newspaper articles intended for a number of constituencies. Some, directed at racist whites, cheer the lynchings. Meanwhile, black newspapers and those directed at more progressive whites decry the practice. As such, the collection is a perfect tool for examing the place of lynching within various US communities in the latter 19th and early 20th century. Even more excellent when combined with the visual record of _No Sanctuary_.

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Summary: The definite book on this subject
Review: In recent times, there has been a lot of interest and books about the Tulsa and Rosewood Massacres ("American Kristilllnachts" as a writer of a book on the Tulsa massacre put it). This book, orignially publsihed in 1961, shows that these were only two of thousands of such incidents in American history. Read it and see what your history teacher was not likely to have told you.

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Summary: The definite book on this subject
Review: In recent times, there has been a lot of interest and books about the Tulsa and Rosewood Massacres ("American Kristilllnachts" as a writer of a book on the Tulsa massacre put it). This book, orignially publsihed in 1961, shows that these were only two of thousands of such incidents in American history. Read it and see what your history teacher was not likely to have told you.

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Summary: The basis of Black Rage
Review: Ralph Ginzburg in this historic book show that African-Americans are justified in their fear of White America. The graphic details of lynchings show how racism can make people do to their fellow man. Anyone who wants to understand the roots of Black Nationalism should read this book.

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Summary: The basis of Black Rage
Review: Ralph Ginzburg in this historic book show that African-Americans are justified in their fear of White America. The graphic details of lynchings show how racism can make people do to their fellow man. Anyone who wants to understand the roots of Black Nationalism should read this book.

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Summary: gloomy but informative
Review: This book has no table of contents, no index and no pictures but just newspaper reports from 1880 to 1961 on various lynching incidents. The headlines are all in bold type and the complete articles are given. The articles are not an easy read for the squeamish. All of the gory details of the lynchings are given including why the victim was lynched, how the victim was tortured before the lynching and the method used for execution.

Here are some examples of a few headlines to give you an idea of the content:

"First Negro at West Point Knifed by Fellow Cadets" "Texans Lynch Wrong Negro" "Lynched for Being Black" "Wrong Man Lynched as Rapist" "Negro Youth Mutilated for Kissing White Girl" "Negro Shot Dead for Kissing his White Girlfriend" The redeeming value in a book like this is that it's a study of human behavior. It shows how far people can and will go in the name of hate and what kinds of things people are capable of.