Table of Contents

Acknowledgments / xi
Introduction / 1
1 Mobs and Ritual / 17
2 "To Draw the Line": Crimes and Victims / 49
3 "When White Men Merit Lynching" / 86
4 The Geography of Lynching in Georgia / 103
5 The Geography of Lynching in Virginia / 140
6 "We Live in an Age of Lawlessness": The Response to Lynching in Virginia / 161
7 The Struggle against Lynching in Georgia, 1880-1910 / 191
8 Turning the Tide: Opposition to Lynching in Georgia, 1910-30 / 208
Epilogue The Passing of a Tradition / 245
Appendixes / 261
Notes / 303
Index / 369

About the Author

W. Fitzhugh Brundage is William Umstead Distinguished Professor at the University of North Carolina. His books include Civilizing Torture: An American Tradition and The Southern Past: A Clash of Race and Memory.

Reviews

Winner of the Merle Curti Social History Award given by the Organization of American Historians, 1994.

"The research is formidable, the analysis sophisticated. Clearly, this is the best work ever written on lynching."--Numan V. Bartley, author of The Rise of Massive Resistance: Race and Politics in the South during the 1950s

Winner of the Merle Curti Social History Award given by the Organization of American Historians, 1994.

"The research is formidable, the analysis sophisticated. Clearly, this is the best work ever written on lynching."--Numan V. Bartley, author of The Rise of Massive Resistance: Race and Politics in the South during the 1950s