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Postcard depicting the lynching of Lige Daniels, Center, Texas, USA, August 3, 1920. The back reads, "This was made in the court yard in Center, Texas. He is a 16 year old Black boy. He killed Earl's grandma. She was Florence's mother. Give this to B |
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There are 6 critical essays on Lynching.
Critical Essays on Lynching
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 Critical Essay by W. Fitzhugh Brundage
17,016 words, approx. 57 pages
 In the following essay, Brundage details responses to lynching by politicans and the press in Virginia in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.
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Critical Essay by Bruce E. Baker
11,658 words, approx. 39 pages
In the following essay, Baker examines ballads associated with three lynchings in North Carolina and contends that, more than novels and poetry, folk music offers insight into attitudes toward lynching in the communities where they occurred.
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Critical Essay by Linda O. McMurry
8,021 words, approx. 27 pages
In the following essay, McMurry delineates Ida B. Wells-Barnett's anti-lynching activism and career after the journalist's controversial departure from the Memphis Free Speech.
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Critical Essay by Patricia Hill Collins
5,725 words, approx. 19 pages
In the following essay, an introduction to three of Ida B. Wells-Barnett's writings on lynching, Collins provides an overview of Wells-Barnett's activism and career and situates Wells-Barnett inside a feminist tradition.
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Critical Essay by Trudier Harris
4,821 words, approx. 16 pages
In the following excerpt, Harris provides an overview of works addressing the theme of lynching and argues that raising the topic was, for many writers, a consciously political act.
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Critical Essay by Donald L. Grant
4,485 words, approx. 15 pages
In the following excerpt, Grant examines the treatment of lynching in both the white and black press.
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