Anatomy of a Lynching: The Killing of Claude Neal

by James R. McGovern, Albert Crochet

Overview

Anatomy of a Lynching carefully reconstructs the grim events surrounding the death of Claude Neal one of an estimated three thousand blacks to die at the hands of southern lynch mobs in the six decades between the 1880's and the outbreak of World War II.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780807117668
Publisher:	Louisiana State University Press
Publication date:	01/28/1992
Series:	Killing of Claude Neal
Edition description:	Reprint
Pages:	184
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x (d)

About the Author

Manfred Berg holds the Curt Engelhorn Chair in American History at Heidelberg University. He is the author of Popular Justice: A History of Lynching in America.

James R. McGovern (1928—2012) was a professor of history at the University of West Florida and the author of Yankee Family and Emergence of a City in the Modern South: Pensacola, 1900—1945.

Editorial Reviews

An unaltered reprint of the Louisiana State University Press edition of 1982. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

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