Racial Violence in Kentucky: Lynchings, Mob Rule, and Legal Lynchings

by George C., Wright and George C. Wright

Book Overview

In this investigative look into Kentucky's race relations from the end of the Civil War to 1940, George C. Wright brings to light a consistent pattern of legally sanctioned and extralegal violence employed to ensure that blacks knew their "place" after the war. In the first study of its kind to target the racial patterns of a specific state, Wright demonstrates that despite Kentucky's proximity to the North, its black population was subjected to racial...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0807120731
• ISBN13: 9780807120736
• Release Date: February 1996
• Publisher: LSU Press
• Length: 368 Pages
• Weight: 1.10 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.0" x 8.9"