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.
| ISBN: | 9781403961211 |
| Publication date: | 31st January 2003 |
| Author: | NA NA |
| Publisher: | Palgrave Macmillan an imprint of Palgrave USA |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Pagination: | 222 pages |
| Genres: |
History of the Americas History Human rights, civil rights |