The Last Lynching: How a Gruesome Mass Murder Rocked a Small Georgia Town
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| Rating | : | 4.10 (667 Votes) |
| Asin | : | B071S3NCXS |
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| Number of Pages | : | 243 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2013-12-31 |
| Language | : | English |
DESCRIPTION:
Often, in a show of racist violence, the lynchers tortured their victims before murdering them. Along the way, The Last Lynching sheds light into a dark corner of American history that no one can afford to ignore. Pitch reveals the true story behind the last mass lynching in America in unprecedented detail. Their killers were never identified. Then, in 1946, the dead bodies of two men and two women were found near Moore's Ford Bridge in rural Monroe, Georgia. Nothing casts a more sinister shadow over our nation's history than the gruesome lynchings that happened between 1882 and 1937, claiming 4,680 victims. Drawing on some 10,000 previously classified documents from the FBI and National Archives, Lynched paints an unflinching picture of the lives of the victims, suspects, and eyewitnesses and describes the political, judicial, and socioeconomic conditions that stood in the way of justice. In The Last Lynching, Anthony S. Most killers were never brought to justice; some were instead celebrated as heroes, their victims' bodies displayed or even cut up and distributed as trophies. While not every title we publish becomes a New York Times best seller or a national best seller, we are comm
cooperkat10 said A Horrible Part of our nation's history. This is not a book that can be read in one sitting. The amount of research involved is impressive.I learned that the definition of lynching is the murder of a person by a mob without any lawful due process.Four people are dragged from a car and mutilated and murdered. The townspeople rush to the scene to collect souvenirs: a finger, pieces of rope, bullets.The bulk of the book deals with the attempt to find and convict the murderers. The. "When the pot of racism boils over" according to James M. Browning. This book details a stunning chapter in American history that is not very pretty. It gives me insight into the horrors of racism. It is an event that we all should be ashamed of.. Kelly Durham said Chilling. A chilling look at the lawlessness of Jim Crow society in the South.