Author: John M. Curran
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Category : Clothing and dress
Languages : en
Pages : 24
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Prices of Clothing
Author: John M. Curran
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Category : Clothing and dress
Languages : en
Pages : 24
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Category : Clothing and dress
Languages : en
Pages : 24
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The Antiquities of Wisconsin
Author: Increase Allen Lapham
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Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 220
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Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 220
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The Lynching of Cleo Wright
Author: Dominic J. CapeciJr.
Publisher: University Press of Kentucky
ISBN: 0813156467
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 292
Book Description
On January 20, 1942, black oil mill worker Cleo Wright assaulted a white woman in her home and nearly killed the first police officer who tried to arrest him. An angry mob then hauled Wright out of jail and dragged him through the streets of Sikeston, Missouri, before burning him alive. Wright's death was, unfortunately, not unique in American history, but what his death meant in the larger context of life in the United States in the twentieth-century is an important and compelling story. After the lynching, the U.S. Justice Department was forced to become involved in civil rights concerns for the first time, provoking a national reaction to violence on the home front at a time when the country was battling for democracy in Europe. Dominic Capeci unravels the tragic story of Wright's life on several stages, showing how these acts of violence were indicative not only of racial tension but the clash of the traditional and the modern brought about by the war. Capeci draws from a wide range of archival sources and personal interviews with the participants and spectators to draw vivid portraits of Wright, his victims, law-enforcement officials, and members of the lynch mob. He places Wright in the larger context of southern racial violence and shows the significance of his death in local, state, and national history during the most important crisis of the twentieth-century.
Publisher: University Press of Kentucky
ISBN: 0813156467
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 292
Book Description
On January 20, 1942, black oil mill worker Cleo Wright assaulted a white woman in her home and nearly killed the first police officer who tried to arrest him. An angry mob then hauled Wright out of jail and dragged him through the streets of Sikeston, Missouri, before burning him alive. Wright's death was, unfortunately, not unique in American history, but what his death meant in the larger context of life in the United States in the twentieth-century is an important and compelling story. After the lynching, the U.S. Justice Department was forced to become involved in civil rights concerns for the first time, provoking a national reaction to violence on the home front at a time when the country was battling for democracy in Europe. Dominic Capeci unravels the tragic story of Wright's life on several stages, showing how these acts of violence were indicative not only of racial tension but the clash of the traditional and the modern brought about by the war. Capeci draws from a wide range of archival sources and personal interviews with the participants and spectators to draw vivid portraits of Wright, his victims, law-enforcement officials, and members of the lynch mob. He places Wright in the larger context of southern racial violence and shows the significance of his death in local, state, and national history during the most important crisis of the twentieth-century.
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Category : Irradiation
Languages : en
Pages : 4
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Category : Irradiation
Languages : en
Pages : 4
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Who's who in Colored America
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Category : African Americans
Languages : en
Pages : 516
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Category : African Americans
Languages : en
Pages : 516
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CABI
Author: Denis Blight
Publisher: CABI Publishing
ISBN: 9781845938734
Category : Agriculture
Languages : en
Pages : 171
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Publisher: CABI Publishing
ISBN: 9781845938734
Category : Agriculture
Languages : en
Pages : 171
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Midway 4 June 1942
Author: Chester Leo Smith
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Category : Midway, Battle of, 1942
Languages : en
Pages : 76
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Category : Midway, Battle of, 1942
Languages : en
Pages : 76
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The Book of Church Order
Author: Presbyterian Church in the U.S. General Assembly
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ISBN: 9780804239042
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 132
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ISBN: 9780804239042
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 132
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Black History in the Last Frontier
Author: Ian C. Hartman
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ISBN: 9780996583787
Category : African Americans
Languages : en
Pages : 208
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ISBN: 9780996583787
Category : African Americans
Languages : en
Pages : 208
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Minutes of the ... Annual Session of the Little River Baptist Association
Author: Little River Baptist Association
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Category : Baptist associations
Languages : en
Pages : 8
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Category : Baptist associations
Languages : en
Pages : 8
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