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Hanging Bridge - Racial Violence and America's Civil Rights Century (Paperback)
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Hanging Bridge - Racial Violence and America's Civil Rights Century (Paperback)
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List price R586
Loot Price R485
Discovery Miles 4 850
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Lying just south of Neshoba County, where three civil rights
workers were murdered during Freedom Summer, Clarke County lay
squarely in Mississippi's -- and America's -- meanest corner. 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 there. Fewer still remained. Local African
Americans knew why the movement had taken so long to reach them.
Some spoke of a bottomless pit in the snaking Chickasawhay River in
the town of Shubuta, into which white aggressors dumped bodies.
Others pointed to an old steel-framed bridge across that same muddy
creek. Spanning three generations, Hanging Bridge reconstructs two
wartime lynchings -- the 1918 killing of two young men and two
pregnant women, and the 1942 slaying of two adolescent boys -- that
propped up Mississippi's white supremacist regime and hastened its
demise. These organized murders reverberated well into the 1960s,
when local civil rights activists again faced off against racial
terrorism and more refined forms of repression. Connecting the
lynchings at Hanging Bridge to each other and then to Civil
Rights-era struggles over segregation, voting, poverty, Black
Power, and Vietnam, Jason Morgan Ward's haunting book traces the
legacy of violence that reflects the American experience of race,
from the depths of Jim Crow to the emergence of a national campaign
for racial equality. In the process, it creates a narrative that
links living memory and meticulous research, illuminating one of
the darkest places in American history and revealing the resiliency
of the human spirit.
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