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Author Dray, Philip, author.

Title A lynching at Port Jervis : race and reckoning in the Gilded Age / Philip Dray.

Edition First edition.
Publication Info. New York : Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2022.
Bookmark link: https://library.naperville-lib.org:444/record=b2207291~S1
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 Nichols Adult Nonfiction  364.134 DRA    AVAILABLE
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Description 260 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Contents Introduction -- June 2, 1892 -- City in progress -- A shadow cast over my sunshade -- "I am not the man" -- Southern methods outdone -- The vigorous pen of Ida B. Wells -- Inquest -- The author of my misfortune -- The blunders of virtue -- Epilogue.
Summary "A book on a lynching that took place in New York in 1892, forcing the North to reckon with its own racism and eventually inspiring a powerful novella by Stephen Crane"-- Provided by publisher.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 239-254).
Subject Lynching -- New York (State) -- Port Jervis -- History -- 19th century.
African Americans -- New York (State) -- Port Jervis -- History -- 19th century.
Racism -- New York (State) -- History -- 19th century.
Port Jervis (N.Y.) -- Race relations -- History -- 19th century.
ISBN 9780374194413 (hardcover)
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