At the Hands of Persons Unknown: The Lynching of Black America
History, Customs and cultures
Synthetic audio, Automated braille
Summary
Winner of the Southern Book Critics Circle Award for Nonfiction. This extraordinary account of lynching in America, by acclaimed civil rights historian Philip Dray, shines a clear, bright light on American history's darkest stain--illuminating its causes, perpetrators, apologists, and victims.… Philip Dray also tells the story of the men and women who led the long and difficult fight to expose and eradicate lynching, including Ida B. Wells, James Weldon Johnson, Walter White, and W. E. B. Du Bois.