Vann R. Newkirk
Auteur de Lynching in North Carolina: A History, 1865-1941
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Vann R. Newkirk is an associate vice president for Academic Affairs and associate professor of history at Fort Valley State University in Tort Valley, Georgia. He has extensively researched the development of the NAACP in North Carolina and the subject of crime and punishment in general and has afficher plus served as an educational consultant for colleges across the South. afficher moins
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- Œuvres
- 2
- Membres
- 13
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- 3.5
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Good quick look into the laws that hindered the punishment of the perpetrators and the politics that played behind it all.
Newspaper accounts and other documents, if found, help the reader form a reasonably clear picture of the circumstances surrounding the lynchings. The ones that actually go to trial are the more interesting, simply because there is more substance to them.
Being left with only newspaper accounts can be frustrating. The “mobs” destroyed the real story (or as real as we might have had if the supposed criminal had gotten his/her day in court).
The excellent timeline/list of “Other Notable Lynchings” in Appendix II is a hidden 'jewel' – wonder how many county historians will look at it and see something they didn’t know?
It isn’t easy to look back on the ugly parts of our history but it is the only way to understand how and what kind of climate our ancestors lived in.
Whether we pretend to not know or know and dismiss, lynchings caused a deep and lasting scar in our histories – acknowledging them helps us all move forward.… (plus d'informations)