The Making of a Lynching Culture(English, Paperback, Carrigan William D.)

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The Making of a Lynching Culture(English, Paperback, Carrigan William D.) is written by Carrigan William D. and published by University of Illinois Press. It's available with International Standard Book Number or ISBN identification 0252074300 (ISBN 10) and 9780252074301 (ISBN 13).

How a culture of violence legitimized lynching among ordinary people On May 15, 1916, a crowd of fifteen thousand witnessed the lynching of an eighteen-year-old black farm worker named Jesse Washington. Most central Texans of the time failed to call for the punishment of the mob's leaders. In The Making of a Lynching Culture, now in paperback, William D. Carrigan seeks to explain not how a fiendish mob could lynch one man but how a culture of violence that nourished this practice could form and endure for so long among ordinary people. Beginning with the 1836 independence of Texas, The Making of a Lynching Culture reexamines traditional explanations of lynching, including the role of the frontier, economic tensions, and political conflicts. Using a voluminous body of court records, newspaper accounts, oral histories, and other sources, Carrigan shows how notions of justice and historical memory were shaped to glorify violence and foster a culture that legitimized lynching.