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Crusade for Justice: The Autobiography of Ida B. Wells
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Crusade for Justice

By Ida B. Wells ,

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The Accursed
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The Accursed

By Joyce Carol Oates ,

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They Left Great Marks on Me: African American Testimonies of Racial Violence from Emancipation to World War I
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They Left Great Marks on Me

By Kidada E. Williams ,

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The Last Thing You Surrender: A Novel of World War II
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The Last Thing You Surrender

By Leonard Pitts, Jr. ,

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And the Dead Shall Rise: The Murder of Mary Phagan and the Lynching of Leo Frank
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And the Dead Shall Rise

By Steve Oney ,

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Lynching and Spectacle: Witnessing Racial Violence in America, 1890-1940
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Lynching and Spectacle

By Amy Louise Wood ,

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Ida: A Sword Among Lions
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Ida

By Paula J. Giddings ,

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Without Sanctuary: Lynching Photography in America
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Without Sanctuary

By James Allen ,

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Southern Horrors: Lynch Law in All Its Phases
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Southern Horrors

By Ida B. Wells ,

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At the Hands of Persons Unknown: The Lynching of Black America
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At the Hands of Persons Unknown

By Philip Dray ,

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The Autobiography of an Ex-Colored Man
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The Autobiography of an Ex-Colored Man

By James Weldon Johnson ,

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A Wreath for Emmett Till
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A Wreath for Emmett Till

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The Vain Conversation
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The Vain Conversation

By Anthony Grooms ,

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1919, The Year of Racial Violence: How African Americans Fought Back
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1919, The Year of Racial Violence

By David F. Krugler ,

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Rituals Of Blood: The Consequences Of Slavery In Two American Centuries
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Rituals Of Blood

By Orlando Patterson ,

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Sweetbitter
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Sweetbitter

By Reginald Gibbons ,

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A Lynching in the Heartland: Race and Memory in America
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A Lynching in the Heartland

By James H Madison ,

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Eat Him If You Like
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Eat Him If You Like

By Jean Teule , Emily Phillips (translator) ,

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Under Sentence of Death: Lynching in the South
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Under Sentence of Death

By W. Fitzhugh Brundage (editor) ,

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The Family Tree: A Lynching in Georgia, a Legacy of Secrets, and My Search for the Truth
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The Family Tree

By Karen Branan ,

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