Hanging Bridge Racial Violence and America's Civil Rights Century
Hanging Bridge Racial Violence and America's Civil Rights Century
- ISBN 13:
9780199376568
- ISBN 10:
0199376565
- Format: Hardcover
- Copyright: 05/02/2016
- Publisher: Oxford University Press
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Summary
Spanning three generations, Hanging Bridge reconstructs two wartime lynchings — the 1918 killing of two young men and two pregnant women, and the 1942 slaying of two adolescent boys — that propped up Mississippi's white supremacist regime and hastened its demise. These organized murders reverberated well into the 1960s, when local civil rights activists again faced off against racial terrorism and more refined forms of repression.
Connecting the lynchings at Hanging Bridge to each other and then to Civil Rights-era struggles over segregation, voting, poverty, Black Power, and Vietnam, Jason Morgan Ward's haunting book traces the legacy of violence that reflects the American experience of race, from the depths of Jim Crow to the emergence of a national campaign for racial equality. In the process, it creates a narrative that links living memory and meticulous research, illuminating one of the darkest places in American history and revealing the resiliency of the human spirit.