Lynching: Selected References
Compiled by Eric Kofi Acree, Africana Librarian
Africana Library, Cornell University
Allen, James. 2000. Without Sanctuary: Lynching Photography in America. Santa Fe, New Mexico: Twin Palms.
Without Sanctuary: Photographs & Postcards of Lynching in America -- http://www.withoutsanctuary.org/
Ames, Jessie D. 1973. The Changing Character of Lynching; Review of Lynching, 1931-1941, With a Discussion of Recent Developments in This Field. New York: AMS Press.
Apel, Dora. 2004. Imagery of Lynching: Black Men, White Women, and the Mob. New Brunswick , N.J.: London: Rutgers University Press.
Aptheker, Bettina ed., Jane Addams, and Ida B. Wells-Barnett. 1977. Lynching and Rape: An Exchange of Views. New York: American Institute for Marxist Studies.
Bernstein, Patricia. 2005. The First Waco Horror: The Lynching of Jesse Washington and The Rise of The NAACP. College Station: Texas A&M University Press.
Brundage, W. Fitzhugh.1993. Lynching in the New South: Georgia and Virginia, 1880-1930. Urbana: University of Illinois Press.
Chadbourn, James H., University of North Carolina . School of Law , and Southern Commission on the Study of Lynching. 1933. Lynching and The Law. Chapel Hill: The University of North Carolina Press.
Civil Rights Congress (U.S.). 1970. We Charge Genocide; The Historic Petition To The United Nations For Relief From A Crime Of The United States Government Against The Negro People. New York: International Publishers.
Dray, Philip. 2002. At The Hands of Persons Unknown: The Lynching of Black America. New York: Random House.
Giddings, Paula J. 2005. Ida: A Sword Among Lions; Ida B. Wells and the Campaign Against Lynching. New Orleans, Louisiana: Amistad.
Ginzburg, Ralph. 1969. 100 years of Lynchings. New York: Lancer Books. (First published in 1962.)
Hudson-Weems, Clenora. 1994. Emmett Till: The Sacrificial Lamb of the Civil Rights Movement. Troy, Mich.: Bedford Publishers.
Jackson, Jesse, and Bruce Shapiro. 2001. Legal Lynching: The Death Penalty and America's Future. New York: New Press: Distributed by W.W. Norton.
Johnson, Marie R. 1998. 'Of These, One Was a Woman': The Lynching of African American Women, 1885-1946. (Africana Thesis)
Madison, James H. 2001. A Lynching In The Heartland: Race and Memory In America . New York: Palgrave.
Markovitz, Jonathan. 2004. Legacies of Lynching: Racial Violence and Memory. Minneapolis, MN: University of Minnesota Press.
Metress, Christopher. 2002. The Lynching of Emmett Till: A Documentary Narrative. Charlottesville: University of Virginia Press.
National Association for the Advancement of Colored People. 1969. Thirty Years of Lynching In The United States, 1889-1918. New York: Negro Universities Press.
Nelson, Marilyn, and Philippe Lardy. 2005. A Wreath For Emmett Till. Boston: Houghton Mifflin.
Perkins, Kathy A., and Judith L. Stephens. 1998. Strange Fruit: Plays on Lynching By American Women. Bloomington: Indiana University Press.
Raper, Arthur F., and Southern Commission on the Study of Lynching. 1933. The Tragedy of Lynching. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press.
Rice, Anne P. 2003. Witnessing Lynching: American Writers Respond. New Brunswick, N.J.: Rutgers University Press.
Shay, Frank. 1938. Judge Lynch, His First Hundred Years. New York: I. Washburn.
Till-Mobley, Mamie, and Chris Benson. 2003. Death of Innocence: The Story of The Hate Crime That Changed America. New York: Random House.
Tolnay, Stewart E., and E. M. Beck. 1995. A Festival of Violence: An Analysis of Southern Lynchings, 1882-1930. Urbana: University of Illinois Press.Waldrep, Christopher. 2006. Lynching In America: A History In Documents. New York: New York University Press.
Wells-Barnett, Ida B. 2002. On Lynchings. Amherst , N.Y.: Humanity Books. (First work originally published: Southern Horrors. 1892. Second work originally published: A Red Record. 1895. Third work originally published: Mob Rule in New Orleans. 1900.)
White, Walter F. 1969. Rope and Faggot. New York: Arno Press. (A reprint of the 1929 ed.)
Zangrando, Robert L. 1980. The NAACP Crusade Against Lynching, 1909-1950. Philadelphia: Temple University Press.
