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Cargando... Our Town: A Heartland Lynching, a Haunted Town, and the Hidden History of White Americapor Cynthia Carr
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Inscríbete en LibraryThing para averiguar si este libro te gustará. Actualmente no hay Conversaciones sobre este libro. Marion, Indiana is the last place you'd think of as a KKK hotbed. Yet, in 1930, two African-Americans (and nearly a third man) were lynched by a mob who thought that they had raped a white woman. The author's grandfather was part of the group, and she combines the search for the truth, conversations with the elderly survivor, and later in the book, interviews with Klan members in the area. You're left with a distinctly uneasy feeling that the final revelations of an ex-Knight do not entirely appease. ( ) sin reseñas | añadir una reseña
On August 7, 1930, three black teenagers were dragged from their jail cells in Marion, Indiana, by a howling mob. Two were hanged, the third escaped. A photo taken that night shows the bodies hanging from the tree but focuses on the faces in the crowd. It is only one event in the history of race relations in Marion, a history considered by many to be best forgotten. But 63 years later, journalist Carr met the man who'd survived, which led her to examine how the town she loved could harbor such dark secrets. Spurred by the realization that millions of white Americans are intimately connected to this hidden history, she began to investigate the event, racism in Marion, the Ku Klux Klan in Indiana, and her own grandfather's involvement. She uncovered a pattern of white guilt and indifference, of black anger and fear that mark race relations across the country.--From publisher description. No se han encontrado descripciones de biblioteca. |
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