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Author
Publisher
Skyhorse Publishing
Pub. Date
2016.
Physical Desc
xxii, 214 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
In 1946, the bodies of two men and two women were found near Moore's Ford Bridge in rural Monroe, Georgia. Their killers were never identified. And although the crime reverberated through the troubled community, the corrupt courts, and eventually the whole world, many details remained unexplored--until now.
Author
Publisher
Little, Brown Spark
Pub. Date
2021.
Physical Desc
xvii, 285 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
A true tale of justice in the Jim Crow south relates the story of George Dinning, a freed slave who was wrongfully convicted of murder after defending himself against a white mob and later won damages against them in court with the help of a Confederate war hero-turned-lawyer.
Author
Publisher
Doubleday
Pub. Date
c2008
Physical Desc
x, 468 p. : ill. ; 25 cm.
Language
English
Description
Reveals how, from the late 1870s through the mid-twentieth century, thousands of African-American men were arrested and forced to work off outrageous fines by serving as unpaid labor to businesses and provincial farmers.
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
Mississippi, 1955: fourteen-year-old Emmett Till was murdered by a white mob after making flirtatious remarks to a white woman, Carolyn Bryant. Till's attackers were never convicted, but his lynching became one of the most notorious hate crimes in American history. It launched protests across the country, helped the NAACP gain thousands of members, and inspired famous activists like Rosa Parks to stand up and fight for equal rights for the first...
7) Get out
Publisher
Universal Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2017]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (104 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
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Description
A young black man meets his white girlfriend's parents at their estate, only to find out that the situation is much more sinister than it appears.
8) The subject
Publisher
Gravitas Ventures
Pub. Date
[2021]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (119 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
A successful white documentarian deals with the fallout from his previous film, which caught the murder of a Black teen on tape. As he shoots his latest doc, someone tapes his every move, upending his idyllic life.
9) Till
Publisher
Universal
Pub. Date
[2023]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (131 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Formats
Description
Till is a profoundly emotional and cinematic film about the true story of Mamie Till Mobley's relentless pursuit of justice for her fourteen-year-old son, Emmett Till, who, in 1955, was lynched while visiting his cousins in Mississippi. In Mamie's poignant journey of grief turned to action, we see the universal power of a mother's ability to change the world.
Author
Publisher
W. W. Norton & Company
Pub. Date
[2021]
Physical Desc
382 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
"The inside story of how a courageous FBI informant helped to bring down the KKK chapter responsible for a brutal civil rights-era killing. By early 1966, the civil rights work of Vernon Dahmer, head of the Forrest County chapter of the NAACP and a dedicated advocate for voter registration, was well-known in Mississippi. This put him in the crosshairs of the White Knights, one of the most violent sects of the KKK in the South-which carried out his...
Author
Publisher
Other Press
Pub. Date
[2020]
Physical Desc
xi, 173 pages ; 20 cm
Language
English
Description
"An award-winning journalist deals forthrightly with what it means to be black in Trump Country. In Why didn't we riot?, South Carolina-based journalist Issac J. Bailey reflects on a wide range of topics that have been increasingly dividing Americans, from police brutality and Confederate symbols to poverty and respectability politics. Bailey has been honing his views on these issues for the past quarter of a century in his professional and private...
Author
Publisher
Grand Central Publishing
Pub. Date
2022.
Physical Desc
viii, 146 pages : illustrations ; 19 cm
Language
English
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Additional New Books for the Pueblo Chieftain: December 19, 2022
Best Non-Fiction of 2022 - Kirkus Reviews
Best Non-Fiction of 2022 - Kirkus Reviews
Formats
Description
"In the midst of civil unrest in the summer of 2020 following the murders of George Floyd, Breonna Taylor, and Ahmaud Arbery, one of the great literary voices of our time, Elizabeth Alexander, wrote a moving reflection on the psyche of young Black America, turning a mother's eye to her sons' generation. Originally published in the New Yorker, the essay brilliantly and lovingly observed the lives and attitudes of young people who even as children could...
Author
Language
English
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Description
"A paradigm-shifting investigation of Jim Crow-era violence, the legal apparatus that sustained it, and its enduring legacy, from a renowned legal scholar. If the law cannot protect a person from a lynching, then isn't lynching the law? In By Hands Now Known, Margaret A. Burnham, director of Northeastern University's Civil Rights and Restorative Justice Project, challenges our understanding of the Jim Crow era by exploring the relationship between...
Language
English
Formats
Description
“In 1946, my great-grandfather murdered a black man named Bill Spann and got away with it.” So begins Travis Wilkerson’s critically-acclaimed, immensely powerful documentary, which takes us on a journey through the American South to uncover the truth behind a horrific incident and the societal mores that allowed it to happen. Acting as guide and narrator, Wilkerson begins in Dothan, Alabama, where he interviews civil rights activist Ed Vaughn,...
Author
Publisher
St. Martin's Press
Pub. Date
2019.
Physical Desc
x, 309 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
"A deeply moving work of narrative nonfiction on the tragic shootings at the Mother Emanuel AME church in Charleston, South Carolina. On June 17, 2015, twelve members of the historically black Emanuel AME Church in Charleston, South Carolina welcomed a young white man to their evening Bible study. He arrived with a pistol, 88 bullets, and hopes of starting a race war. Dylann Roof's massacre of nine innocents during their closing prayer horrified the...
Author
Publisher
Mariner Books
Pub. Date
[2024]
Physical Desc
419 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
Follows the story of eleven black men who were bailed out of jail, forced into slavery on a Georgia farm in 1921, and eventually murdered, and the trials of the white plantation owner and the black overseer, based on the FBI's notes.
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