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In this investigative look into Kentuckys race relations from the end of the Civil War to 1940, George C. Wright brings to light a consistent pattern of legally sanctioned and extralegal violence employed to ensure that blacks knew their place after the war. In the first study of its kind to target the racial patterns of a specific state, Wright demonstrates that despite Kentuckys proximity to the North, its black population was subjected to racial oppression every bit as severe and prolonged as that found farther south. His examination of the causes and extent of racial violence, and of the steps taken by blacks and concerned whites to end the brutality, has implications for race relations throughout the United States.
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Racial Violence in Kentucky, 1865-1940 : Lynchings, Mob Rule, and "Legal Lynchings"
author
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Wright, George C.
publisher
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Louisiana State University Press
isbn10 | asin
:
0807120731
print isbn13
:
9780807120736
ebook isbn13
:
9780585318738
language
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English
subject
Lynching--Kentucky--History, Discrimination in capital punishment--Kentucky--History, African Americans--Kentucky--Crimes against--History, Discrimination in criminal justice administration--Kentucky--History, Kentucky--Race relations.
publication date
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1990
lcc
:
HV6465.K4W75 1990eb
ddc
:
364.1/34
subject
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Lynching--Kentucky--History, Discrimination in capital punishment--Kentucky--History, African Americans--Kentucky--Crimes against--History, Discrimination in criminal justice administration--Kentucky--History, Kentucky--Race relations.
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Racial Violence in Kentucky, 18651940
Lynchings, Mob Rule, and "Legal Lynchings"
George C. Wright
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Copyright 1990 by Louisiana State University Press All rights reserved Manufactured in the United States of America
Designer: Laura Roubique Gleason Typeface: Trump Mediaeval Typesetter: G&S Typesetters, Inc. Printer and binder: Thomson-Shore, Inc.
LIBRARY OF CONGRESS CATALOGING-IN-PUBLICATION DATA
Wright, George C. Racial violence in Kentucky, 18651940: lynchings, mob rule, and "legal lynchings" / George C. Wright. p. cm. Includes bibliographical references. ISBN 0-8071-1536-3 (cloth) ISBN 0-8071-2073-1 (pbk.) 1. LynchingKentuckyHistory. 2. Capital punishmentKentucky History. 3. Afro-AmericansKentuckyCrimes againstHistory. 4. Discrimination in criminal justice administrationKentucky History. 5. KentuckyRace relations. I. Title. HV6465.K4W75 1990 364.I'34-dc20 89-38651 CIP
The paper in this book meets the guidelines for permanence and durability of the Committee on Production Guidelines for Book Longevity of the Council on Library Resources.
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TO My mother, Amanda Wright Knox The memory of my father, Scott J. Wright (19261972) and My parents-in-law, Ida L. and William H. Ellison
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Contents
Acknowledgments
xiii
Introduction: Kentucky Violence, Severe and Long Lasting
1
One Reconstruction: Using Violence to Preserve the Status Quo, 18651874
19
Two "Lynchings Are Necessary," 18751899
61
Three "To Hang in an Orderly Fashion," 19001940
105
Four Ousting "Troublemakers"
127
Five Holding Back a Rising Tide, 18751899
155
Six Meeting Mob Violence with Renewed Determination, 19001940
185
Seven "A Sacrifice Upon the Altar of the Law," 18751899
215
Eight Color-Coded Justice: Racial Violence Under the Law, 19001940
251
Appendix A Victims of Lynchings
307
Appendix B Names of People Legally Executed
325
Selected Bibliography
333
Index
343
Page ix
Illustrations
following page 163
The Shelbyville lynchings, 1901
The lynching of Will Porter, 1911
The lynchings of four black men, 1908
The public hanging of Rainey Bethea, 1936
A hearse encounters difficulty at Bethea's execution
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Tables
1. Kentucky's Black and White Population, 18601950
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