TY - BOOK AU - Williams,Kidada E. ED - ProQuest (Firm) TI - They left great marks on me: African American testimonies of racial violence from emancipation to World War I AV - E185.2 .W67 2012 U1 - 973/.0496073 23 PY - 2012/// CY - New York PB - New York University Press KW - African Americans KW - History KW - 1863-1877 KW - 1877-1964 KW - Violence against KW - 19th century KW - 20th century KW - Lynching KW - United States KW - Racism KW - Electronic books N1 - Includes bibliographical references and index; The "special object(s) of hatred and persecution" : the terror of emancipation -- "A long series of oppression, injustice, and violence" : the purgatory of sectional reconciliation -- "Lynched, burned alive, Jim-Crowed in my country" : shaping responses to the descent to hell -- "If you can, the colored needs help" : reaching out from local communities -- "It is not for us to run away from violence" : fueling the NAACP's antilynching -- Crusade -- Epilogue : closer to the promised land; Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, MI : ProQuest, 2015. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest affiliated libraries UR - https://ebookcentral.proquest.com/lib/bacm-ebooks/detail.action?docID=865957 ER -