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Authors: Julius Lester
Brundage, W. Fitzhugh.
Lynching in the New South, Georgia and Virginia, 1880â1930
. Urbana and Chicago: University of Illinois Press, 1993.
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Civil Rights Congress.
We Charge Genocide: The Crime of Government Against the Negro People.
New York: 1951.
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Dray, Philip.
At the Hands of Persons Unknown: The Lynching of Black America.
New York: Modern Library, 2003.
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Ginzburg, Ralph.
100 Years of Lynchings: A Shocking Documentary of Race Violence in America
. New York: Lancer Books, 1962.
Julius Lester
is the author of the Newbery Honor Book
TO BE A SLAVE
(1969), the National Book Award finalist
LONG JOURNEY HOME
:
Stories from Black History
(1972), and the Coretta Scott King Award Book
DAY OF TEARS
(2006). He is also a National Book Critics Circle nominee and a recipient of the
Boston GlobeâHorn Book
Award. His picture book
LET'S TALK ABOUT RACE
was named to the New York Public Library's “One Hundred Titles for Reading and Sharing.” In addition to his critically acclaimed writing career, Mr. Lester has distinguished himself as a civil rights activist, musician, photographer, radio talk-show host, and professor. For thirty-two years he taught at the University of Massachusetts at Amherst. He lives in western Massachusetts.
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1
At the Hands of Persons Unknown: The Lynching of Black America
by Philip Dray, Modern Library, New York, 2003, p. 21.
2
Ibid.
, p. 49.
3
Ibid.
, p. 232.