ASIN: B003NSBQ6S
Publisher: Amazon.com Services LLC
Pages: 94
In the spring of 1923, in a university town that had been proud of its progressive attitudes, a mob of several hundred men and women gathered to watch the lynching of a black man accused, wrongly it seems, of raping a professor's daughter. The lynching caused a national outcry among black activists. "We are glad to note," W. E. B. noted in The Crisis, "that the University of Missouri has opened a course in Applied Lynching. Many of our American Universities have long defended the institution, but they have not been frank or brave enough actually to arrange a mob murder so that students could see it in detail."Hunt's book describes both the mob's actions and the attempts of some citizens, black and white, to bring its leaders to justice. Enthusiastic readers of Harper Lee’s "To Kill a Mockingbird" may be interested in this account of how justice operated in a Southern town when its ...
