On the Courthouse Lawn : Confronting the Legacy of Lynching in the Twenty-First Century

from pomo58

On the Courthouse Lawn: Confronting the Legacy of Lynching in the 21st Century is a ten year anniversary reissue by Sherrilyn A Ifill. This powerful book uses the Maryland Eastern Shore lynchings in the 1930s, and subsequent racial issues in the area, as a central point and example of what the le...

from PoliticalMediaReview

Everything happens somewhere. In 1933, in the small town of Princess Anne on the Lower Eastern Shore of the state of Maryland, hundreds of local citizens stormed the county jail, seizing and stabbing George Armwood (a black man accused of attacking a white woman) before dragging him down the stai...

from PoliticalMediaReview

Everything happens somewhere. In 1933, in the small town of Princess Anne on the Lower Eastern Shore of the state of Maryland, hundreds of local citizens stormed the county jail, seizing and stabbing George Armwood (a black man accused of attacking a white woman) before dragging him down the stai...

from ReluctantTechie

This book emphasizes the gruesome details about a few lynchings that took place on Maryland's Eastern Shore. I read it because a local Unitarian Universalist congregation will be discussing it this summer. The author maintains that these lynchings have a pervasive effect on current racial relat...

from pomo58

On the Courthouse Lawn: Confronting the Legacy of Lynching in the 21st Century is a ten year anniversary reissue by Sherrilyn A Ifill. This powerful book uses the Maryland Eastern Shore lynchings in the 1930s, and subsequent racial issues in the area, as a central point and example of what the le...