From the end of Reconstruction to the onset of the civil rights era, lynching was prevalent in developing and frontier regions that had a dynamic and fluid African American population. Focusing on Mis
"This book recounts how forward-looking Southern boosters, entrepreneurs, and architects in St. Augustine, Richmond, and Atlanta carefully crafted usable pasts to promote sectional reconciliation and
It has been claimed that the lynching of 14-year-old Emmett Till in 1955 was the spark that set off the American civil rights movement. In this volume, Metress (English, Samford U.) weaves together ex
