A Lynching in the Heartland: Race and Memory in America

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Overview

On a hot summer night in 1930, three black teenagers accused of murdering a young white man and raping his girlfriend waited for justice in an Indiana jail. A mob dragged them from the jail and lynched two of them. No one in Marion, Indiana was ever punished for the murders. In this gripping account, James H. Madison refutes the popular perception that lynching was confined to the South, and clarifies 20th century America's painful encounters with race, justice, and memory.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781403961211
Publisher:	Palgrave Macmillan US
Publication date:	01/31/2003
Edition description:	2001
Pages:	222
Product dimensions:	6.69(w) x 9.61(h) x 0.02(d)

About the Author

James H. Madison is Miller Professor of History at Indiana University in Bloomington, where he teaches American history. This is his fourth book.

Table of Contents

A Night of Terror
• ”Strange Fruit” in the American Democracy
• An Ordinary Place in Time
• Lines of Color, Lines of Community
• The Stories Begin
• ”A Fair Mob”
• ”All Over Now”
• Remembering
• The Long Lines of Color

Editorial Reviews

"As passionate as it is disturbing, Madison's book is a dire reminder of the horrors the American heartland held for the dispossessed." - Publishers Weekly

"Conveyed in a simple, straightforward fashion, Madison's story acquires its own persuasive eloquence." - Washington Post Book World

"A piercing, provocative account of a famous lynching that will forever alter the way you see race, memory, and justice in America." - Essence Magazine

"Conveyed in a simple, straigtforward fashion, Madison's story acquires its own persuasive eloquence." - International Herald Tribune

"Through creative and meticulous research, this books reveals the complex roots and lasting significance of what happened..." - American Historical Review

From the Publisher

With the skills of a historian and the artistry of a journalist, Madison has written more than a study of lynching....

W. Fitzhugh Brundage

Conveyed in a simple,straightforward fashion,Madison's story acquires its own persuasive eloquence.

International Herald Tribune

Conveyed in a simple, straightforward fashion, Madison's story acquires its own persuasive eloquence.

Washington Post Book World

This is a profoundly insightful study about race that all Americans should read.

Darlene Clark Hine

...a piercing, provocative account...that will forever alter the way you see race, memory and justice in America...

Essence

...a piercing, provocative account...that will forever alter the way you see race, memory and justice in America...