A Lynching in the Heartland Race and Memory in America

by Madison, James H.

• ISBN13: 9781403961211
• ISBN10: 1403961212
• Edition: Reprint
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2003-01-04
• Publisher: SPRINGER - VERLAG

Summary

On a hot summer night in 1930, three black teenagers accused of murdering a young white man and raping his girlfriend waited for justice in an Indiana jail. A mob dragged them from the jail and lynched two of them. No one in Marion, Indiana was ever punished for the murders. In this gripping account, James H. Madison refutes the popular perception that lynching was confined to the South, and clarifies 20th-century America's painful encounters with race, justice, and memory.

Author Biography

James H. Madison is Miller Professor of History at Indiana University in Bloomington, where he teaches American history. This is his fourth book.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments	ix
Maps Marion and the Midwest Marion, 1930	xiii
Introduction	1	(4)
A Night of Terror	5	(8)
``Strange Fruit'' in the American Democracy	13	(14)
An Ordinary Place in Time	27	(16)
Lines of Color, Lines of Community	43	(20)
The Stories Begin	63	(18)
``A Fair Mob''	81	(12)
``All Over Now''	93	(18)
Remembering	111	(18)
The Long Lines of Color	129	(26)
Notes	155	(28)
Bibliography	183	(14)
Index	197