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Hanging bridge : racial violence and America's civil rights century, Jason Morgan Ward
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- Summary
- "Even at the height of the civil rights movement in the 1960s, when the clarion call for equality and justice echoed around the country, few volunteers ventured into Clarke County, Mississippi. Fewer still remained. Located just south of Neshoba County, where three civil rights workers had been murdered during 1964's Freedom Summer, Clarke lay squarely in what many considered Mississippi's, and thus America's, meanest corner. Local African Americans knew why the movement failed there. Some spoke of a bottomless hole in the snaking Chickasawhay River in the town of Shubuta, where white vigilantes had for decades dumped the bodies of murdered African Americans. Others spoke of a 'hanging bridge' that spanned that same muddy creek. Spanning three generations, Hanging Bridge reveals what happened in Clarke Country in 1919 and 1942, when two horrific lynchings took place, the first of four young people, including a pregnant woman, the second, of two teenaged boys accused of harassing a white girl. Jason Ward's painstaking and haunting reconstruction of these events traces a legacy of violence that reflects the American experience of race, from the depths of Jim Crow through to the growing power of the NAACP and national awareness of what was taking places even in the country's bleakest racial landscapes. Connecting the lynchings to each other and then to the civil rights struggles in the 1960s, when the threat of violence hung heavy over Clark County, Ward creates a narrative that links living memory and verifiable fact, illuminating one of the darkest places in American history and revealing the resiliency of the human spirit"--
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- eng
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- Hanging bridge : racial violence and America's civil rights century
- Title
- Hanging bridge
- Title remainder
- racial violence and America's civil rights century
- Statement of responsibility
- Jason Morgan Ward
- Title variation
- Hanging bridge
- Title variation remainder
- racial violence and Americas civil rights century
- Subject
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- African Americans -- Civil rights -- Mississippi | Clarke County -- History -- 20th century
- African Americans -- Violence against -- Mississippi | Clarke County -- History -- 20th century
- trueCivil Rights Movement
- trueCivil rights
- Civil rights movements -- Mississippi | Clarke County -- History -- 20th century
- Clarke County (Miss.) -- Race relations | History -- 20th century
- trueClarke County, Mississippi
- HISTORY / North America
- HISTORY / United States / State & Local / South (AL, AR, FL, GA, KY, LA, MS, NC, SC, TN, VA, WV)
- trueLynching
- Lynching -- Mississippi | Clarke County -- History -- 20th century
- trueMississippi
- trueRacism
- Racism -- Mississippi | Clarke County -- History -- 20th century
- Shubuta (Miss.) -- Biography
- Shubuta (Miss.) -- Race relations | History -- 20th century
- trueShubuta, Mississippi
- trueAfrican Americans
- Language
- eng
- Summary
- "Even at the height of the civil rights movement in the 1960s, when the clarion call for equality and justice echoed around the country, few volunteers ventured into Clarke County, Mississippi. Fewer still remained. Located just south of Neshoba County, where three civil rights workers had been murdered during 1964's Freedom Summer, Clarke lay squarely in what many considered Mississippi's, and thus America's, meanest corner. Local African Americans knew why the movement failed there. Some spoke of a bottomless hole in the snaking Chickasawhay River in the town of Shubuta, where white vigilantes had for decades dumped the bodies of murdered African Americans. Others spoke of a 'hanging bridge' that spanned that same muddy creek. Spanning three generations, Hanging Bridge reveals what happened in Clarke Country in 1919 and 1942, when two horrific lynchings took place, the first of four young people, including a pregnant woman, the second, of two teenaged boys accused of harassing a white girl. Jason Ward's painstaking and haunting reconstruction of these events traces a legacy of violence that reflects the American experience of race, from the depths of Jim Crow through to the growing power of the NAACP and national awareness of what was taking places even in the country's bleakest racial landscapes. Connecting the lynchings to each other and then to the civil rights struggles in the 1960s, when the threat of violence hung heavy over Clark County, Ward creates a narrative that links living memory and verifiable fact, illuminating one of the darkest places in American history and revealing the resiliency of the human spirit"--
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- 10490284
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- Ward, Jason Morgan
- Dewey number
- 364.1/34
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- illustrations
- maps
- Index
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- Literary form
- non fiction
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- bibliography
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- Lynching
- African Americans
- Racism
- African Americans
- Civil rights movements
- HISTORY / North America
- HISTORY / United States / State & Local / South (AL, AR, FL, GA, KY, LA, MS, NC, SC, TN, VA, WV)
- Clarke County (Miss.)
- Shubuta (Miss.)
- Shubuta (Miss.)
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- racial violence and America's civil rights century
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- Hanging bridge : racial violence and America's civil rights century, Jason Morgan Ward
- Bibliography note
- Includes bibliographical references and index
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- Control code
- 1553496
- Dimensions
- 25 cm
- Extent
- xv, 326 pages
- Isbn
- 9780199376568
- Lccn
- 2015036630
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- (Sirsi) i9780199376568
- (OCoLC)921864717
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- Hanging bridge : racial violence and America's civil rights century, Jason Morgan Ward
- Bibliography note
- Includes bibliographical references and index
- Carrier category
- volume
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- nc
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- rdacarrier
- Content category
- text
- Content type code
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- txt
- Content type MARC source
- rdacontent
- Control code
- 1553496
- Dimensions
- 25 cm
- Extent
- xv, 326 pages
- Isbn
- 9780199376568
- Lccn
- 2015036630
- Media category
- unmediated
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- rdamedia
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- (Sirsi) i9780199376568
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Subject
- African Americans -- Civil rights -- Mississippi | Clarke County -- History -- 20th century
- African Americans -- Violence against -- Mississippi | Clarke County -- History -- 20th century
- trueCivil Rights Movement
- trueCivil rights
- Civil rights movements -- Mississippi | Clarke County -- History -- 20th century
- Clarke County (Miss.) -- Race relations | History -- 20th century
- trueClarke County, Mississippi
- HISTORY / North America
- HISTORY / United States / State & Local / South (AL, AR, FL, GA, KY, LA, MS, NC, SC, TN, VA, WV)
- trueLynching
- Lynching -- Mississippi | Clarke County -- History -- 20th century
- trueMississippi
- trueRacism
- Racism -- Mississippi | Clarke County -- History -- 20th century
- Shubuta (Miss.) -- Biography
- Shubuta (Miss.) -- Race relations | History -- 20th century
- trueShubuta, Mississippi
- trueAfrican Americans
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