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

All American Boys by Jason Reynolds; Brendan Kiely
Call Number: PZ7.R33593 Al 2015
ISBN: 9781481463331
Publication Date: 2015-09-29
Racial profiling in law enforcement
Police brutality
African Americans
Police brutality
Racial profiling in law enforcement
Brotherhood of Corruption by Juan Antonio Juarez
Call Number: HV8148.C4 J83 2004
ISBN: 1556525362
Publication Date: 2004-08-01
Down the River unto the Sea by Walter Mosley
Call Number: PS3563.O88456 D69 2018
ISBN: 9780316509640
Publication Date: 2018-02-20
The two cases intertwine, exposing a pattern of corruption and brutality wielded against black men, women, and children whose lives the law destroyed.
Police Brutality by Jill Nelson
Call Number: SNC HV 8141 .P567 2000
ISBN: 0393048837
Publication Date: 2000-05-01
police violence and the Black community / Obstacle illusions : the cult of racial appearance
The Politics of Force by Regina G. Lawrence
Call Number: P94.5.P64 L38 2000
ISBN: 0520221923
Publication Date: 2000-11-06
The social construction of problems in the media arena -- Making a problem of brutality

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