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They Left Great Marks on Me - Kidada E. Williams

They Left Great Marks on Me

African American Testimonies of Racial Violence from Emancipation to World War I
Buch | Hardcover
293 Seiten
2012
New York University Press (Verlag)
978-0-8147-9535-4 (ISBN)
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Examines African Americans' testimonies about racial violence
Shares wrenching accounts of the everyday violence experienced by emancipated African Americans

Well after slavery was abolished, its legacy of violence left deep wounds on African Americans’ bodies, minds, and lives. For many victims and witnesses of the assaults, rapes, murders, nightrides, lynchings, and other bloody acts that followed, the suffering this violence engendered was at once too painful to put into words yet too horrible to suppress.

In this evocative and deeply moving history Kidada Williams examines African Americans’ testimonies about racial violence. By using both oral and print culture to testify about violence, victims and witnesses hoped they would be able to graphically disseminate enough knowledge about its occurrence and inspire Americans to take action to end it. In the process of testifying, these people created a vernacular history of the violence they endured and witnessed, as well as the identities that grew from the experience of violence. This history fostered an oppositional consciousness to racial violence that inspired African Americans to form and support campaigns to end violence. The resulting crusades against racial violence became one of the political training grounds for the civil rights movement.

Kidada E. Williams is Assistant Professor of African American history at Wayne State University

Acknowledgments Introduction 1 "The Special Object of Hatred and Persecution": The Terror of Emancipation 2 "A Long Series of Oppression, Injustice, and Violence": The Purgatory of Sectional Reconciliation 3 "Lynched, Burned Alive, Jim-Crowed ... in My Country": Shaping Responses to the Descent to Hell 4 "If You Can, the Colored Needs Help": Reaching Out from Local Communities 5 "It Is Not for Us to Run Away from Violence": Fueling the NAACP's Antilynching Crusade Epilogue: Closer to the Promised Land Notes Works Cited Index About the Author

Verlagsort New York
Sprache englisch
Maße 153 x 229 mm
Themenwelt Geisteswissenschaften Geschichte Regional- / Ländergeschichte
Sozialwissenschaften Politik / Verwaltung
Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie Spezielle Soziologien
ISBN-10 0-8147-9535-8 / 0814795358
ISBN-13 978-0-8147-9535-4 / 9780814795354
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