Record details

• ISBN: 0807872164
• ISBN: 0807835226
• ISBN: 9780807835227
• ISBN: 9780807872161
• Physical Description: xviii, 299 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
• Publisher: Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, [2011]
• Copyright: ©2011

Content descriptions

General Note:

"Published with the assistance of the Anniversary Endowment Fund of the University of North Carolina Press."

"Sponsored by the Center for the Study of Southern Culture at the University of Mississippi."

Bibliography, etc. Note:

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

Formatted Contents Note:

Violence in the American South -- American Indians, Violence against -- Arson -- Black armed resistance -- Blood sports -- Capital punishment -- Church burnings -- Civil rights, Federal enforcement -- Civil rights-era violence -- Civil War -- Corporal punishment in schools -- Criminal justice through the civil rights era -- Dueling -- Feuds and feuding -- Films about lynching -- Films about prison -- Guns -- Homicide -- Honor -- Hunting -- Labor violence -- Literature, Violence in -- Lynching -- Memory -- Mexican Americans, Violence towards -- Militarism -- Nonviolent protest (Civil disobedience) -- Organized crime -- Outlaw-heroes -- Peonage -- Police brutality -- Prisons -- Race riots -- Rape -- Reconstruction-era violence -- Religion and violence -- Slave culture, Violence within -- Slave patrols -- Slave revolts -- Slaves, Violence toward -- Song, Black, Violence in -- Song, White, Violence in -- Southwestern violence -- Suicide -- Vigilantism -- Alamo -- American Indian blood revenge -- American Indian slave trade -- Ames, Jessie Daniel -- Andersonville Prison -- Angola Prison (Louisiana State Penitentiary) -- Antiabortion violence -- Antilynching activism -- Atlanta (Georgia) race riots (1906) -- Bacon's Rebellion -- Birmingham Church Bombing -- The birth of a nation -- Black militias -- "Bonnie and Clyde" -- Bowie knife -- Byrd, James, Murder of -- Chain gang -- Convict leasing -- Copeland, James -- Cortez, Gregorio -- Deliverance -- Donald, Michael, Lynching of -- Elaine (Arkansas) Massacre (1919) -- Evers, Medgar, Assassination of -- Filibusters -- Forrest, Nathan Bedford -- Frank, Leo -- Greensboro (North Carolina) Massacre (1979) -- Guerrilla bands -- Harlan County, Kentucky -- Hatfields and McCoys -- James Brothers -- King, MartinLutherr, Jr., Assassination of -- Knights of the Golden Circle -- Ku Klux Klan, Civil Rights Era to the present -- Ku Klux Klan, Reconstruction-era -- Ku Klux Klan, Second (1915-1944) -- Long, Huey, Assassination of -- Lynching photography -- Night Riders -- Orangeburg (South Carolina) Massacre (1968) -- Parchman Mississippii State Penitentiary) -- Redfield, H. V. -- Regulator movement -- Rosewood (Florida) Incident (1923) -- Scottsboro Case -- Sumner-Brooks Affair -- Texas Rangers -- Till, Emmett -- Trail of Tears -- Tulsa (Oklahoma) Race Riot (1921) -- Turner, Nat -- Waco Siege (Branch Davidians) -- Wells-Barnett, Ida B. -- Whitecappers -- Wilmington (North Carolina) Race Riot (1898) -- Index of contributors -- Index.

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Subject:

Violence > Southern States > Encyclopedias.
Southern States > Social conditions > Encyclopedias.
Southern States > Race relations > Encyclopedias.

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Encyclopedias.

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