| Description |
126 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm |
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Includes bibliographical references (pages [117]-126). |
| Contents |
The Wood River massacre -- The mystery of Jean Lafitte's grave -- An abused slave and the woman who saved him -- The first duel in Illinois -- Tickets to a black abolitionist's hanging -- The Lincoln-Shields duel -- The lynching of a schoolteacher -- The brief but wild history of Benbow City -- Curtis Reese: minister, humanist crimefighter -- The East St. Louis race riot -- The lynching of Robert Prager: a World War I hate crime -- The Ku Klux Klan in southwestern Illinois -- James Earl Ray and the murder of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. -- The Nike Missile Base at Pere Marquette State Park. |
| Summary |
"Southwestern Illinois experienced a plethora of violence during the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Settlers and Native Americans clashed at the Wood River Settlement, while Abraham Lincoln dueled on a Mississippi River island. Racial strife led to the lynching of a Black schoolteacher in Belleville in 1903 and a deadly riot in East St. Louis fourteen years later...John Dunphy examines the bloody ledger of southwestern Illinois"--P. [4] of cover. |
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Reese, Curtis W. (Curtis Williford), 1887-1961.
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Prager, Robert, 1888-1918.
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Ray, James Earl, 1928-1998.
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King, Martin Luther, Jr., 1929-1968.
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Lincoln, Abraham, 1809-1865.
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Shields, James, 1806-1879.
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Laffite, Jean.
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Ku Klux Klan (19th century)
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Murder -- Illinois.
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Crime -- Illinois.
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Lynching -- Illinois.
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Dueling -- Illinois.
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East Saint Louis Race Riot, East Saint Louis, Ill., 1917.
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Nike-Zeus missile.
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Pere Marquette State Park (Ill.)
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| Added Title |
Murder and mayhem in southwestern Illinois |
| ISBN |
9781467147910 (pbk.) |
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1467147915 (pbk.) |
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