A Lynching in the Heartland Race and Memory in America

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Pub. Date: 2003-01-04
Publisher(s): SPRINGER - VERLAG
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Summary

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.

Author Biography

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

Acknowledgments ix
Maps Marion and the Midwest Marion, 1930
xiii
Introduction 1(4)
A Night of Terror
5(8)
``Strange Fruit'' in the American Democracy
13(14)
An Ordinary Place in Time
27(16)
Lines of Color, Lines of Community
43(20)
The Stories Begin
63(18)
``A Fair Mob''
81(12)
``All Over Now''
93(18)
Remembering
111(18)
The Long Lines of Color
129(26)
Notes 155(28)
Bibliography 183(14)
Index 197

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