424 records matched your query       

Author:

Dray, Philip, author.

Title:

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

Edition:

First edition.

Publisher:

FarrarStraus and Giroux,

Copyright Date:

2022

Description:

260 pages : illustrations, map ; 24 cm

Subject:

Lynching--Port Jervis--Port Jervis--History--19th century.
African Americans--Port Jervis--Port Jervis--History--19th century.
Racism--New York (State)--History--19th century.
Port Jervis (N.Y.)--History--History--19th century.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references.

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.

ISBN:

0374194416
9780374194413

OCLC:

(OCoLC)1266253944

LCCN:

2021059700

Locations:

BOPG851 -- Ames Public Library (Ames)

TYPH572 -- Cedar Rapids Public Library (Cedar Rapids)

BAPH771 -- Des Moines Public Library (Des Moines)

CAPH522 -- Iowa City Public Library (Iowa City)

OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)