On the Courthouse Lawn: Confronting the Legacy of Lynching in the Twenty-first Century
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- Synopsis
- As her clients explain the background to the injustice they were seeking relief from, says civil rights lawyer Ifill (law, U. of Maryland), lynching inevitably comes into the story. She found that communities have no formal mechanisms to help blacks and whites come to terms with the legacy of lynching. Here she offers the bare beginning of a project analogous to the South African Truth and Reconciliation Commission, with the painful but necessary names and details of lynchings during the 20th century, not as a catalogue, but in chapters looking at various aspects. Annotation ©2007 Book News, Inc. , Portland, OR (booknews. com)
- Copyright:
- 2007
Book Details
- Book Quality:
- Publisher Quality
- ISBN-13:
- 9780807009888
- Publisher:
- Beacon Press, Boston
- Date of Addition:
- 04/24/11
- Copyrighted By:
- Sherrilyn A. Ifill
- Adult content:
- No
- Language:
- English
- Has Image Descriptions:
- No
- Categories:
- History, Nonfiction, Social Studies
- Submitted By:
- Bookshare Staff
- Usage Restrictions:
- This is a copyrighted book.