Item #003201 A Lynching in the Heartland: Race And Memory in America. James H. Madison.

A Lynching in the Heartland: Race And Memory in America

New York: Palgrave for St. Martin's Press, 2001. 1st Edition. Hardcover. 8vo. Near Fine / Near Fine. Item #003201

First edition stated, full number line. Red cloth boards with gilt lettering to spine. XII, [2 p.p. B&W maps], 204 p.p.+ [16 p.p.] B&W photos. Spine ends bruised, smudge to fore edge of text block. Dust jacket in near fine condition. A Lynching in the Heartland is the story of a hot summer evening in the Midwest, where three black teenagers, accused of murdering a young white man and raping his white girlfriend, waited for justice in an Indiana jail. As the sun set a mob dragged the three prisoners from the jail and lynched two of them. No one in Marion, Indiana was ever published for these murders. This is a book about America's long and violent struggles with its color line.

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