The Tragedy of Lynching

by Arthur F. Raper

Overview

This book deals with the quest for a preventive to lynching which can be undertaken only after one has an understanding of what it is that is to be prevented. This necessary analysis of lynching—its background, circumstances, and meaning—introduces many baffling elements. The author has made a detailed study of the lynchings of 1930 in an effort to find an answer to the complexities of the problem.

Originally published in 1933.

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Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780807897584
Publisher:	The University of North Carolina Press
Publication date:	05/15/2011
Series:	University of North Carolina. Social St
Edition description:	1
Pages:	510
Product dimensions:	5.50(w) x 8.50(h) x 1.50(d)

Table of Contents

	Introduction	v
Part 1	The Toll of the Mob	1
I.	Salient Facts about Lynchings in 1930	3
II.	General Aspects of Lynching	25
III.	The Tragedy of the Mob	40
Part 2	Lynchings in Black Belt Counties	55
IV.	"Blue Eyed Niggers"	59
V.	"Decent Burial" for Lynched Pair	85
VI.	"Imperial Bolivar" and What It Means	94
VII.	North Carolina Slips Back	107
VIII.	"Red-Boned Nigger from Louisiana"	125
Part 3	Lynchings in Southeast Georgia	139
IX.	Lynched after an All-Night Man-Hunt	141
X.	He Angered the "Lily Whites"	172
XI.	Lynched in His Cell	203
XII.	The Sheriff Keeps Faith with the Mob	233
Part 4	Lynchings in Piedmont Counties	261
XIII.	"Framed" and Lynched	263
XIV.	Twenty Minutes Late	286
XV.	Mobs--"Orderly" and Disorderly	302
Part 5	Mob Outbreaks in North Texas and Central Oklahoma	317
XVI.	Burning Down the Courthouse	319
XVII.	No Property Destroyed	356
XVIII.	Death in Cell by Gun and Knife	369
Part 6	Lynchings Outside the South	384
XIX.	A Public Affair	387
XX.	Chained to Ridge Pole and Burned	407
Part 7	Foiling the Mob	441
XXI.	Protecting Their Prisoners	443
XXII.	Cooperation of Police and Courts	454
	Lynchings in 1930, 1931, 1932	469
	Threatened Lynchings Prevented 1930-33	473
	Lynchings by Years, by Causes, etc.	480