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

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

Title remainder

race and reckoning in the Gilded Age

Statement of responsibility

Philip Dray

Creator

• Dray, Philip

Author

• Dray, Philip

Subject

• 19e siècle, Noirs américains -- New York (État) | Port Jervis -- Histoire
• African Americans
• African Americans -- New York (State) | Port Jervis -- History -- 19th century
• History
• Lynchage -- New York (État) | Port Jervis -- Histoire -- 19e siècle
• Lynching
• Lynching -- New York (State) | Port Jervis -- History -- 19th century
• New York (State)
• New York (State) -- Port Jervis
• 1800-1899
• Port Jervis (N.Y.) -- Race relations | History -- 19th century
• Race relations
• Racism
• Racism -- New York (State) -- History -- 19th century
• Racisme -- New York (État) -- Histoire -- 19e siècle
• Racisme -- New York (État) -- Histoire -- 19e siècle
• SOCIAL SCIENCE / Sociology / General
• Noirs américains -- New York (État) | Port Jervis -- Histoire -- 19e siècle
• 19e siècle, Lynchage -- New York (État) | Port Jervis -- Histoire

Genre

• History

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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• illustrations
• maps

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no index present

Literary form

non fiction

Nature of contents

bibliography