On the Courthouse Lawn: Confronting the Legacy of Lynching in the Twenty-First Century by Sherrilyn Ifill

On the Courthouse Lawn: Confronting the Legacy of Lynching in the Twenty-First Century

Sherrilyn Ifill

204 pages first pub 2007 (editions)

nonfiction history politics race challenging informative reflective slow-paced
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Nearly 5,000 black Americans were lynched between 1890 and 1960, and as Sherrilyn Ifill argues, the effects of this racial trauma continue to resound. While the lynchings were devastating, the little-known contemporary consequences, such as the ma...

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