Lynching in History (56 books)

Lynching is a reality of America almost too painful to be taught in school; and important to heal. Please add thoughtful sources and books to this list.
References include NAACP, here: https://www.naacp.org/history-of-lync...
Wikipedia, here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lynching

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1	Death of Innocence: The Story of the Hate Crime That Changed America by Mamie Till-Mobley 4.44 avg rating — 1,258 ratings score: 159, and 2 people voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
2	A Few Days Full of Trouble: Revelations on the Journey to Justice for My Cousin and Best Friend, Emmett Till by Wheeler Parker Jr. 4.16 avg rating — 248 ratings score: 153, and 2 people voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
3	Without Sanctuary: Lynching Photography in America by James Allen (Collector) 4.64 avg rating — 648 ratings score: 100, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
4	On Lynchings by Ida B. Wells-Barnett 4.23 avg rating — 232 ratings score: 99, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
5	At the Hands of Persons Unknown: The Lynching of Black America by Philip Dray 4.45 avg rating — 672 ratings score: 98, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
6	And the Dead Shall Rise: The Murder of Mary Phagan and the Lynching of Leo Frank by Steve Oney 4.08 avg rating — 483 ratings score: 97, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
7	What Virtue There Is in Fire: Cultural Memory and the Lynching of Sam Hose by Edwin T. Arnold really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 15 ratings score: 96, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
8	A Decent, Orderly Lynching: The Montana Vigilantes by Frederick Allen 4.07 avg rating — 70 ratings score: 95, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
9	Screening a Lynching: The Leo Frank Case on Film and Television by Matthew H. Bernstein 2.67 avg rating — 3 ratings score: 94, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
10	Swift to Wrath: Lynching in Global Historical Perspective by William D. Carrigan (Goodreads Author) (Editor) 4.67 avg rating — 3 ratings score: 93, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
11	The Light of Truth: Writings of an Anti-Lynching Crusader by Ida B. Wells-Barnett 4.54 avg rating — 171 ratings score: 92, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
12	The Family Tree: A Lynching in Georgia, a Legacy of Secrets, and My Search for the Truth by Karen Branan (Goodreads Author) 3.53 avg rating — 250 ratings score: 91, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
13	Fire in a Canebrake: The Last Mass Lynching in America by Laura Wexler 3.99 avg rating — 378 ratings score: 90, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
14	Under Sentence of Death: Lynching in the South by W. Fitzhugh Brundage (Editor) 3.60 avg rating — 10 ratings score: 89, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
15	Lynching in the New South: Georgia and Virginia, 1880-1930 by W. Fitzhugh Brundage 4.09 avg rating — 32 ratings score: 88, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
16	Democracy Abroad, Lynching at Home: Racial Violence in Florida by Tameka Bradley Hobbs 4.40 avg rating — 10 ratings score: 87, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
17	The Cross and the Lynching Tree by James H. Cone 4.50 avg rating — 6,265 ratings score: 86, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
18	The Lynching: The Epic Courtroom Battle That Brought Down the Klan by Laurence Leamer (Goodreads Author) 4.08 avg rating — 1,920 ratings score: 85, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
19	The Last Lynching: How a Gruesome Mass Murder Rocked a Small Georgia Town by Anthony S. Pitch 3.60 avg rating — 141 ratings score: 84, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
20	Revolt Against Chivalry: Jessie Daniel Ames and the Women's Campaign Against Lynching by Jacquelyn Dowd Hall (Goodreads Author) 3.91 avg rating — 32 ratings score: 83, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
21	Southern Horrors: Women and the Politics of Rape and Lynching by Crystal N. Feimster 4.35 avg rating — 224 ratings score: 82, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
22	Lynched: The Power of Memory in a Culture of Terror by Angela D. Sims 3.88 avg rating — 24 ratings score: 81, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
23	Who Lynched Willie Earle?: Preaching to Confront Racism by William H. Willimon 4.29 avg rating — 113 ratings score: 80, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
24	The Last Lynching in Northern Virginia: Seeking Truth at Rattlesnake Mountain by Jim Hall 3.84 avg rating — 56 ratings score: 79, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
25	Murder on Shades Mountain: The Legal Lynching of Willie Peterson and the Struggle for Justice in Jim Crow Birmingham by Melanie S. Morrison 3.98 avg rating — 48 ratings score: 78, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
26	Lynching and Spectacle: Witnessing Racial Violence in America, 1890-1940 by Amy Louise Wood 3.97 avg rating — 105 ratings score: 77, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
27	Lynching in the West: 1850-1935 by Ken Gonzales-Day 3.78 avg rating — 23 ratings score: 76, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
28	The Claude Neal Lynching: The 1934 Murders of Claude Neal and Lola Cannady by Dale Cox 4.33 avg rating — 24 ratings score: 75, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
29	They Stole Him Out of Jail: Willie Earle, South Carolina's Last Lynching Victim by William B. Gravely 4.09 avg rating — 22 ratings score: 74, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
30	A Lynching in the Heartland: Race and Memory in America by James H. Madison really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 145 ratings score: 73, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
31	Passionate for Justice: Ida B. Wells as Prophet for Our Time by Catherine Meeks 3.88 avg rating — 152 ratings score: 72, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
32	Ida B. Wells-Barnett and American Reform, 1880-1930 by Patricia A. Schechter 3.61 avg rating — 33 ratings score: 71, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
33	To Tell the Truth Freely: The Life of Ida B. Wells by Mia Bay 4.09 avg rating — 267 ratings score: 70, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
34	Crusade for Justice: The Autobiography of Ida B. Wells by Ida B. Wells-Barnett 4.31 avg rating — 854 ratings score: 69, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
35	Yours for Justice, Ida B. Wells: The Daring Life of a Crusading Journalist by Philip Dray 4.24 avg rating — 161 ratings score: 68, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
36	A Man Called White: The Autobiography of Walter White (Brown Thrasher Books) by Walter Francis White 4.23 avg rating — 48 ratings score: 67, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
37	Rough Justice: Lynching and American Society, 1874-1947 by Michael J. Pfeifer 4.33 avg rating — 12 ratings score: 66, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
38	Race, Rape, and Lynching: The Red Record of American Literature, 1890-1912 by Sandra Gunning 4.08 avg rating — 13 ratings score: 65, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
39	Rope and Faggot: A Biography of Judge Lynch by Walter Francis White 4.12 avg rating — 17 ratings score: 64, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
40	An Unspeakable Crime: The Prosecution and Persecution of Leo Frank by Elaine Marie Alphin 3.91 avg rating — 232 ratings score: 63, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
41	The Leo Frank Case (A Brown Thrasher Book) by Leonard Dinnerstein 3.92 avg rating — 98 ratings score: 62, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
42	Let the People See: The Story of Emmett Till by Elliott J. Gorn 4.30 avg rating — 103 ratings score: 61, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
43	The Blood of Emmett Till by Timothy B. Tyson 4.27 avg rating — 8,960 ratings score: 60, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
44	The Journey to Chatham: Why Emmett Till?s Murder Changed America, a personal story by Arthur L. Miller 4.25 avg rating — 8 ratings score: 58, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
45	A Lynching at Port Jervis: Race and Reckoning in the Gilded Age by Philip Dray 4.12 avg rating — 114 ratings score: 57, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
46	The anti-lynching movement, 1883-1932 by Donald L. Grant 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings score: 56, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
47	Lynching to Belong: Claiming Whiteness through Racial Violence (Volume 106) (Centennial Series of the Association of Former Students, Texas A&M University) by Cynthia Skove Nevels 3.64 avg rating — 11 ratings score: 55, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
48	The First Waco Horror: The Lynching of Jesse Washington and the Rise of the NAACP (Volume 10) by Patricia Bernstein (Goodreads Author) 3.69 avg rating — 45 ratings score: 54, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
49	Elegy for Mary Turner: An Illustrated Account of a Lynching by Rachel Marie-Crane Williams 4.56 avg rating — 330 ratings score: 52, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
50	In the Pines: A Lynching, A Lie, A Reckoning by Grace Elizabeth Hale 3.63 avg rating — 867 ratings score: 51, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
51	Southern Horrors and Other Writings: The Anti-Lynching Campaign of Ida B. Wells, 1892-1900 by Ida B. Wells-Barnett 4.36 avg rating — 778 ratings score: 50, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
52	Wilmington's Lie: The Murderous Coup of 1898 and the Rise of White Supremacy by David Zucchino 4.43 avg rating — 4,249 ratings score: 49, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
53	White Lies: The Double Life of Walter F. White and America’s Darkest Secret by A.J. Baime 4.47 avg rating — 641 ratings score: 48, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
54	Hell Put to Shame: The 1921 Murder Farm Massacre and the Horror of America's Second Slavery by Earl Swift (Goodreads Author) 4.01 avg rating — 690 ratings score: 47, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
55	The New Encyclopedia of Southern Culture, Volume 19: Violence by Amy Louise Wood (Editor) 3.67 avg rating — 3 ratings score: 46, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
56	Beyond Redemption: Race, Violence, and the American South after the Civil War (American Beginnings, 1500-1900) by Carole Emberton (Goodreads Author) 3.96 avg rating — 24 ratings score: 45, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars