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Author
Publisher
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Pub. Date
2022.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
260 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
June 2, 1892, in the small village of Port Jervis, New York. A young Black man named Robert Lewis was lynched by a violent mob. The victim had been accused of sexually assaulting the daughter of one of the town's well-liked Irish American families. It was seen as a portent that lynching, a Southern scourge, was about to extend its tendrils northward. Dray examines the factors that prompted such a spasm of racial violence in a relatively prosperous,...
Author
Publisher
Houghton Mifflin Co
Pub. Date
2008.
Physical Desc
xiii, 463 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
Pulitzer Prize finalist Philip Dray shines a light on a little known group of men: the nation's first black members of Congress. These men played a critical role in pushing for much-needed reforms in the wake of a traumatic civil war, including public education for all children, equal rights, and protection from Klan violence. But they have been either neglected or maligned by most historians--their "glorious failure" chalked up to corruption and...
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