An American Pastime
At the Hands of Persons Unknown: The Lynching of Black America
by Philip Dray
A Lynching in the Heartland: Race and Memory in America
by James H. Madison
November 21, 2002 issue
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David Levering Lewis is Martin Luther King Jr. University Professor of History at Rutgers and the author of a two-volume biography of W.E.B. DuBois, which won a Pulitzer Prize for each volume in 1994 and 2001. (November 2002)
An American Pastime
At the Hands of Persons Unknown: The Lynching of Black America
by Philip Dray
A Lynching in the Heartland: Race and Memory in America
by James H. Madison
November 21, 2002 issue
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