LibGuides: One Lincoln, One Read: Scholarship

Books on Lynching

Ida B. Wells by Dennis Brindell Fradin; Judith Bloom Fradin
Call Number: E185.97.W55 F73 2000

ISBN: 9780395898987

Publication Date: 2000-01-17

A promised journalist, she is remembered for her leadership in women's voting rights, the NAACP, and anti-lynching
Living with Lynching by Koritha Mitchell
Call Number: PS338.N4 M455 2012

ISBN: 9780252078804

Publication Date: 2012-07-06

Mitchell demonstrates that audiences were shown affective ties in black families, a subject often erased in mainstream images of African Americans
Southern Horrors and Other Writings by Jacqueline Jones Royster
Call Number: E185.97.W55 S68 1997

ISBN: 9780312116958

Publication Date: 1996-08-15

Built around three crucial documents - Well's pamphlet Southern Horrors (1892), her essay A Red Record (1895), and her case study Mob Rule in New Orleans (1900) - the volume shows how Wells defined lynching for an international audience as an issue deserving public concern and action.
The Tragedy of Lynching by Arthur Franklin Raper; Southern Commission on the Study of Lynching Staff (Contribution by)
ISBN: 9780486430980

Publication Date: March 15, 2012

Article on the death of G. Floyd in the hands of the Police
In recent years, episodes of police violence involving unarmed Black men—Michael Brown’s death during an altercation with a white police officer in Ferguson (2014), Freddie Gray’s death while in the custody of the Baltimore Police Department (2015), the fatal shooting of Stephon Clark in his grandmother’s backyard in Sacramento (2018)

The Black Butterfly by Lawrence T. Brown
ISBN: 9781421445441

Publication Date: 2022-09-06

Lawrence T. Brown reveals that ongoing historical trauma caused by a combination of policies, practices, systems, and budgets is at the root of uprisings and crises in hypersegregated cities around the country.
The Color of Law by Richard Rothstein
ISBN: 9781631494536

Publication Date: 2018-05-01
Everyday Acts Against Racism by Maureen Reddy (Editor)
Call Number: BF723.P75 E94 1996

ISBN: 1878067850

Publication Date: 1996-10-10
Freedom Is a Constant Struggle by Kenneth T. Andrews
Call Number: E185.93.M6 A85 2004

ISBN: 0226020436

Publication Date: 2004-07-14

Explaining the consequences of social movements -- The contours of struggle -
Not in My Neighborhood by Antero Pietila
ISBN: 9781566638432

Publication Date: 2010-03-16

Not In My Neighborhood: How Bigotry Shaped A Great American City offers a powerful survey of a Baltimore issue that shaped a city's psyche when discrimination policies toward blacks and Jews shaped a world....Eye-opening and recommended for any college-level social issues collection
When They Call You a Terrorist by Patrisse Cullors; asha bandele
Call Number: E185.97.K43 A3 2020

ISBN: 9781250306906

Publication Date: 2020-01-14

Deliberately and ruthlessly targeted by a criminal justice system serving a white privilege agenda, Black people are subjected to unjustifiable racial profiling and police brutality

Can you be black and look at this: Reading the Rodney King
“Can you be BLACK and Look at This?" Is an essay written by Elizabeth Alexander and published in 1994.
This was edited by Emily Gilbert and Ishaan Chatterjee