Author: Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 694
Book Description
The United States Army and Navy Journal and Gazette of the Regular and Volunteer Forces
Author: Rover & Bedford Co, TN - Vol II
Author: Publisher: Turner Publishing Company
ISBN: 1563115484
Category : Bedford County (Tenn.)
Languages : en
Pages : 410
Book Description
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.
Congressional Record
Author: United States. CongressPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Law
Languages : en
Pages : 1636
Book Description
Who's who in the West
Author: Journal of the House of Representatives of the United States
Author: United States. Congress. HousePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Legislation
Languages : en
Pages : 1028
Book Description
Some vols. include supplemental journals of "such proceedings of the sessions, as, during the time they were depending, were ordered to be kept secret, and respecting which the injunction of secrecy was afterwards taken off by the order of the House."
The Abridged Compendium of American Genealogy
Author: Frederick Adams VirkusPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Patriotic societies
Languages : en
Pages : 1160
Book Description
Charles Scott and the "spirit of '76"
Author: Harry M. WardPublisher: University of Virginia Press
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 296
Book Description
Who's Who in the World, 1912
Author: Register of Former Cadets : Virginia Military Institute, Lexington, Virginia, 1927
Author: Virginia Military InstitutePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Lexington (Va.)
Languages : en
Pages : 274
Book Description