Legacies of Racial Violence

A collection of materials on histories of racial violence, their legacies, and reckonings, developed by the Legacies Project, Washington University in St. Louis.

100 years of lynchings

Published: 1962
Author: Ginzburg, Ralph,

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American pogrom : the East St. Louis Race Riot and Black politics / Charles L. Lumpkins

Published: 2008
Author: Lumpkins, Charles L

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Antilynching. Hearings before Subcommittee no. 4 of the Committee on the Judiciary, House of Representatives, Eightieth Congress, second session, on H.R.41 [and others] ... February 4, 1948

Published: 1948
Author: United States. Congress. House. Committee on the Judiciary.

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The draft riots in New York, July, 1863 : the metropolitan police, their services during riot week, their honorable record / by David M. Barnes

Published: 1863
Author: Barnes, David M.

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Indiana's "Sundown Ordinances" -- fact or fiction? : a study of "Sundown Ordinances" in nineteen Indiana towns and cities / conducted by the Indiana Civil Rights Commission and college and university departments of sociology ; [report prepared by Donald M. Royer].

Published: 1965
Author: Royer, Donald M.

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Lynch law in Georgia : a six-weeks' record in the center of southern civilization, as faithfully chronicled by the Atlanta Journal and the Atlanta Constitution : also the full report of Louis P. Le Vin, the Chicago detective sent to investigate the burning of Samuel Hose, the torture and hanging of Elijah Strickland, the colored preacher, and the lynching of nine men for alleged arson / by Ida B. Wells-Barnett

Published: 1899
Author: Wells-Barnett, Ida B., 1862-1931.

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Lynching, a national menace : the white South's protest against lynching / by James E. Gregg 1919

Published: 1919
Author: Gregg, James E. 1875-1946.

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Never been a time : the 1917 race riot that sparked the civil rights movement / Harper Barnes

Published: 2008
Author: Barnes, Harper, 1937-

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Punishment for the Crime of Lynching. : hearings before the United States Senate Committee on the Judiciary, Subcommittee on S. 1978, Seventy-Third Congress, second session PT.1-2

Published: 1934
Author: United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on the Judiciary.

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Race riot at East St. Louis, July 2, 1917 [by] Elliott M. Rudwick. Foreword by Oscar Handlin

Published: 1964
Author: Rudwick, Elliott M.

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Riot at East St. Louis, Illinois : hearings before the Committee on Rules, House of Representatives, Sixty-fifth Congress, first session, on H.J. res. 118, August 3, 1917

Published: 1917
Author: United States. Congress. House. Committee on Rules.

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The southern oligarchy; an appeal in behalf of the silent masses of our country against the despotic rule of the few. By William H. Skaggs

Published: 1924
Author: Skaggs, William Henry, 1861-

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The tragedy of lynching

Published: 1933
Author: Raper, Arthur Franklin, 1899-

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Urban racial violence in the United States: an historical and comparative bibliography. Council of Planning Librarians. Exchange bibliography no. 591 Council of Planning Librarians. Exchange bibliography no. 591

Published: 1974
Author: King, William M.

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We charge genocide : the historic petition to the United Nations for relief from a crime of the United States government against the Negro people / [Edited by William L. Patterson

Published: 1952
Author: Civil Rights Congress (U.S.)

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