For writings by which the antilynching motion documented and systematically analyzed US mob physical violence, see Ida B. Wells, Southern Horrors and Other Writings:…
… The Anti-lynching Campaign of Ida B. Wells, 1892–1900, ed. Jacqueline Jones Royster (Boston, 1997); National Association for the development of Colored People, Thirty several years of Lynching in the usa, 1889–1918 (1919; nyc, 1969); Arthur F. Raper, The Tragedy of Lynching (Chapel Hill, 1933); and Walter White, Rope and Faggot: A Biography of Judge Lynch (1929; Notre Dame, 2001). Ida B. Wells along with her campaign against lynching have actually spawned scholarship that is prolific modern times. See, for instance, Paula J. Continue reading “Michael J. Pfeifer, “Lynching and Criminal Justice in Regional Context: Iowa, Wyoming, and Louisiana, 1878–1946” (Ph.D. Diss., University of Iowa, 1998).”