Lynched: The Victims of Southern Mob Violence, by Amy Kate Bailey and Stewart E. Tolnay

On July 9, 1883, twenty men stormed the jail in Morehouse Parish, Louisiana, kidnapped Henderson Lee, a black man charged with larceny, and hanged him. Events like this occurred thousands of times across the American South in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, yet we know scarcely more about any of these other victims than we do about Henderson Lee. Drawing on new sources to provide the most comprehensive portrait of the men and women lynched in the American South, Amy Bailey and Stewart Tolnay’s revealing profiles and careful analysis begin to restore the identities of–and lend dignity to–hundreds of lynching victims about whom we have known little more than their names and alleged offenses. Visit the book page: Lynched: The Victims of Southern Mob Violence