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

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  • "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"--
  • June 2, 1892, in the small village of Port Jervis, New York. A young Black man named Robert Lewis was lynched by a violent mob. The victim had been accused of sexually assaulting the daughter of one of the town's well-liked Irish American families. It was seen as a portent that lynching, a Southern scourge, was about to extend its tendrils northward. Dray examines the factors that prompted such a spasm of racial violence in a relatively prosperous, industrious upstate New York town. The lynching attracted the scrutiny of Black journalist Ida B. Wells, just then beginning her courageous anti-lynching crusade. The issues Dray explores remain as deserving of our concern now as they did a hundred and thirty years ago. -- adapted from jacket
Language
eng
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Publication
Edition
First edition.
Extent
260 pages
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
Isbn
9780374194413
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A lynching at Port Jervis : race and reckoning in the Gilded Age
Title
A lynching at Port Jervis
Title remainder
race and reckoning in the Gilded Age
Statement of responsibility
Philip Dray
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Author
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Language
eng
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"--
  • June 2, 1892, in the small village of Port Jervis, New York. A young Black man named Robert Lewis was lynched by a violent mob. The victim had been accused of sexually assaulting the daughter of one of the town's well-liked Irish American families. It was seen as a portent that lynching, a Southern scourge, was about to extend its tendrils northward. Dray examines the factors that prompted such a spasm of racial violence in a relatively prosperous, industrious upstate New York town. The lynching attracted the scrutiny of Black journalist Ida B. Wells, just then beginning her courageous anti-lynching crusade. The issues Dray explores remain as deserving of our concern now as they did a hundred and thirty years ago. -- adapted from jacket
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Dray, Philip
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  • maps
Index
no index present
Literary form
non fiction
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  • Lynching
  • African Americans
  • Racism
  • Port Jervis (N.Y.)
  • Lynchage
  • Noirs américains
  • Racisme
  • SOCIAL SCIENCE / Sociology / General
  • African Americans
  • Lynching
  • Race relations
  • Racism
  • New York (State)
  • New York (State)
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A lynching at Port Jervis : race and reckoning in the Gilded Age, Philip Dray
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Includes bibliographical references
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text
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  • txt
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rdacontent
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
Control code
1266253944
Dimensions
24 cm
Edition
First edition.
Extent
260 pages
Isbn
9780374194413
Lccn
2021059700
Media category
unmediated
Media MARC source
rdamedia
Media type code
  • n
Note
WorldCat record variable field(s) change: 520
Other physical details
illustrations, maps
System control number
(OCoLC)1266253944
Label
A lynching at Port Jervis : race and reckoning in the Gilded Age, Philip Dray
Publication
Copyright
Bibliography note
Includes bibliographical references
Carrier category
volume
Carrier category code
  • nc
Carrier MARC source
rdacarrier
Content category
text
Content type code
  • txt
Content type MARC source
rdacontent
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
Control code
1266253944
Dimensions
24 cm
Edition
First edition.
Extent
260 pages
Isbn
9780374194413
Lccn
2021059700
Media category
unmediated
Media MARC source
rdamedia
Media type code
  • n
Note
WorldCat record variable field(s) change: 520
Other physical details
illustrations, maps
System control number
(OCoLC)1266253944

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