They Left Great Marks on Me : : African American Testimonies of Racial Violence from Emancipation to World War I / / Kidada E. Williams.
Shares wrenching accounts of the everyday violence experienced by emancipated African AmericansWell after slavery was abolished, its legacy of violence left deep wounds on African Americans’ bodies, minds, and lives. For many victims and witnesses of the assaults, rapes, murders, nightrides, lynchin...
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Williams, Kidada E., author. aut http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut They Left Great Marks on Me : African American Testimonies of Racial Violence from Emancipation to World War I / Kidada E. Williams. New York, NY : New York University Press, [2012] ©2012 1 online resource text txt rdacontent computer c rdamedia online resource cr rdacarrier text file PDF rda Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- 1 “The Special Object of Hatred and Persecution”: The Terror of Emancipation -- 2 “A Long Series of Oppression, Injustice, and Violence”: The Purgatory of Sectional Reconciliation -- 3 “Lynched, Burned Alive, Jim-Crowed . . . in My Country”: Shaping Responses to the Descent to Hell -- 4 “If You Can, the Colored Needs Help”: Reaching Out from Local Communities -- 5 “It Is Not for Us to Run Away from Violence”: Fueling the NAACP’s Antilynching Crusade -- Epilogue: Closer to the Promised Land -- Notes -- Works Cited -- Index -- About the Author restricted access http://purl.org/coar/access_right/c_16ec online access with authorization star Shares wrenching accounts of the everyday violence experienced by emancipated African AmericansWell after slavery was abolished, its legacy of violence left deep wounds on African Americans’ bodies, minds, and lives. For many victims and witnesses of the assaults, rapes, murders, nightrides, lynchings, and other bloody acts that followed, the suffering this violence engendered was at once too painful to put into words yet too horrible to suppress. In this evocative and deeply moving history Kidada Williams examines African Americans’ testimonies about racial violence. By using both oral and print culture to testify about violence, victims and witnesses hoped they would be able to graphically disseminate enough knowledge about its occurrence and inspire Americans to take action to end it. In the process of testifying, these people created a vernacular history of the violence they endured and witnessed, as well as the identities that grew from the experience of violence. This history fostered an oppositional consciousness to racial violence that inspired African Americans to form and support campaigns to end violence. The resulting crusades against racial violence became one of the political training grounds for the civil rights movement. Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web. In English. Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 28. Mrz 2024) African Americans History 1863-1877. African Americans History 1877-1964. African Americans Violence against History 19th century. African Americans Violence against History 20th century. Lynching History United States. Lynching United States History. Racism History 20th century United States. Racism United States History 20th century. HISTORY / United States / 20th Century. bisacsh https://doi.org/10.18574/nyu/9780814795378.001.0001 https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9780814795378 Cover https://www.degruyter.com/document/cover/isbn/9780814795378/original |
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Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- 1 “The Special Object of Hatred and Persecution”: The Terror of Emancipation -- 2 “A Long Series of Oppression, Injustice, and Violence”: The Purgatory of Sectional Reconciliation -- 3 “Lynched, Burned Alive, Jim-Crowed . . . in My Country”: Shaping Responses to the Descent to Hell -- 4 “If You Can, the Colored Needs Help”: Reaching Out from Local Communities -- 5 “It Is Not for Us to Run Away from Violence”: Fueling the NAACP’s Antilynching Crusade -- Epilogue: Closer to the Promised Land -- Notes -- Works Cited -- Index -- About the Author |
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Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- 1 “The Special Object of Hatred and Persecution”: The Terror of Emancipation -- 2 “A Long Series of Oppression, Injustice, and Violence”: The Purgatory of Sectional Reconciliation -- 3 “Lynched, Burned Alive, Jim-Crowed . . . in My Country”: Shaping Responses to the Descent to Hell -- 4 “If You Can, the Colored Needs Help”: Reaching Out from Local Communities -- 5 “It Is Not for Us to Run Away from Violence”: Fueling the NAACP’s Antilynching Crusade -- Epilogue: Closer to the Promised Land -- Notes -- Works Cited -- Index -- About the Author |
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