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Lynching, an American Pastime
Herskovits, Melville J. | May 15, 1929 issue

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This article focuses on the book "Rope and Faggot. A Biography of Judge Lynch," by Walter White. The author discusses the book as an analytical treatment of lynching rather than as an emotional protest against it. And as such it has many excellent pages. The second chapter, which treats of the extent to which lynching occurs, is most revealing, and cites several striking cases. Taken in connection with the statistical appendix it affords a mine of factual material for those who wish to know the facts. The consideration of the relation between lynching and its economic background is a demonstration of the grasp of the subject which Mr. White possesses.

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ROPE & Faggot: A Biography of Judge Lynch (Book); WHITE, Walter; LYNCHING; STATISTICS; BIOGRAPHY; BOOKS & reading
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