A lynching at Port Jervis : race and reckoning in the Gilded Age / Philip Dray.

Title:

ISBN:

9780374194413

Personal Author:

Dray, Philip

Edition:

First edition.

Publication Information:

New York : Farrar, Straus and Giroux, [2022]

Physical Description:

260 pages : illustrations, map ; 24 cm

Contents:

Introduction -- June 2, 1892 -- City in Progress -- A Shadow Cast over My Sunshade -- "I Am Not the Man" -- Southern Methods Outdone -- The Vigorous Pen of Ida B. Wells -- Inquest -- The Author of My Misfortune -- The Blunders of Virtue -- Epilogue.

Summary:

"A book on a lynching that took place in New York in 1892, forcing the North to reckon with its own racism and eventually inspiring a powerful novella by Stephen Crane"-- Provided by publisher.

Geographic Term:

Port Jervis (N.Y.) -- Race relations -- History -- 19th century

Subject Term:

Lynching--New York (State)--Port Jervis -- History 19th century

African Americans--New York (State)--Port Jervis -- History 19th century

Black people--New York (State)--Port Jervis -- History 19th century

Racism--New York (State) -- History 19th century

OCLC Number:

on1266253944

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