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

Dray, Philip,

A lynching at Port Jervis : race and reckoning in the Gilded Age / Philip Dray. - First edition. - 260 pages : illustrations, map ; 24 cm

Includes bibliographical references.

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.

"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"--

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


Port Jervis (N.Y.)--Race relations--History--19th century.

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