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. A

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. A

Scholarship on lynching has typically been confined to the extralegal execution of African Americans in the American South. The nine essays collected here look

Reconstructs the case of Mack Charles Parker, a young African-American man who was lynched by a white mob in 1959 after being charged with the rape of a white w

Death and the American South is an edited collection of twelve never-before-published essays, featuring leading senior scholars as well as influential up-and-co