Documenting Racial Violence in Kentucky
Books and articles
Fitzhugh Brundage, Lynching in the New South: Georgia and Virginia, 1880 – 1930 (Urbana-Champaign, IL: University of Illinois Press, 1993)
Margaret Burnham, By Hands Now Known: Jim Crow’s Legal Executioners (New York: W.W. Norton, 2022)
William Carrigan, “No Ordinary Crime: Reflections on the Future of the History of Mob Violence,” The Journal of American History, Vol. 101 3(December 2014), pp. 847 – 849.
_____, “The Strange Career of Judge Lynch: Why the Study of Lynching Needs to Be Refocused on the Mid-Nineteenth Century” Journal of the Civil War Era, Vol. 7 2(June 2017), pp. 293-312
Philip Dray, At the Hands of Persons Unknown: The Lynching of Black America (New York: Modern Library, reprint 2003)
W.E.B. Du Bois, Black Reconstruction in America: 1860 – 1880, 1997 edition (New York: Free Press, 1998)
Crystal Feimster, Southern Horrors: Women and the Politics and Rape and Lynching (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2011)
Eric Foner, The Fiery Trial: Abraham Lincoln and American Slavery (New York: W.W. Norton, 2011)
_____, The Second Founding: How the Civil War and Reconstruction Remade the Constitution (New York: W.W. Norton, 2019)
Amy K. Frisken, “’A Song Without Words’: Anti-Lynching Imagery in the African American Press, 1889 – 1898, The Journal of African American History, Vol 97, No. 3 (Summer 2012), pp. 240-269
Ralph Ginzburg, 100 Years of Lynchings (Black Classic Press, reprint, 1996)
Steven Hahn: A Nation Under Our Feet: Black Political Struggles in the Rural South from Slavery to the Great Migration (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2005)
James C. Klotter and Craig Thompson Friend, A New History of Kentucky, second edition (Lexington, KY: The University Press of Kentucky, 2018)
Marion Lucas, A History of Blacks In Kentucky: From Slavery to Segregation, 1760 – 1891 (Lexington, KY: The University Press of Kentucky, 2003)
Anne E. Marshall, Creating A Confederate Kentucky: The Lost Cause and Civil War Memory in a Border State (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2011).
Donald G. Mathews, “The Southern Rite of Human Sacrifice: Lynching in the American South,” The Mississippi Quarterly Vol 61, No. 1/2, Special Issue on Lynching in American Culture (Spring 2008) pp. 27-70
Gerald Smith, Karen Cotton McDaniel, and John A. Hardin, The Kentucky African American Encyclopedia (Lexington, Ky: The University Press of Kentucky, 2015)
Gerald Smith, Slavery and Freedom in the Bluegrass State: Revisiting My Old Kentucky Home (Lexington, KY: The University Press of Kentucky, 2023)
Stewart Tolnay and E.M. Beck, A Festival of Violence: An Analysis of Southern Lynchings, 1882 – 1930 (Urbana-Champaign, IL: University of Illinois Press, 1995)
______, “The Killing Fields of the Deep South: The Market for Cotton and the lynching of Blacks, 1882 – 1930,” American Sociological Review Vol. 55, No. 4 (August, 1990) pp. 526-539
_____, “”Racialized Terrorism” in the American South: Do Completed Lynchings Tell an Accurate Story?,” Social Science History, Vol. 42, 4 (Winter 2018), pp. 677-701
Joe Trotter, The African American Experience (New York: Cengage Learning, 2000)
Christopher Waldrep, Lynching in America: A History in Documents (New York: New York University Press, 2006)
_____, “War of Words: The Controversy Over the Definition of Lynching, 1899 – 1940,” Journal of Southern History, Vol 66, No. 1(February, 2000) pp. 75 – 1000.
Ida B. Wells-Barnett, Southern Horrors and Other Writings: The Anti-Lynching Campaign of Ida B. Wells (Boston: Bedford, 2016)
Kidada Williams, They Left Great Marks on Me: African American Testimonies of Racial Violence from Emancipation to World War I (New York: New York University Press, 2012)
Amy Louise Wood and Susan V. Donaldson, “Lynching’s Legacy in American Culture,” The Mississippi Quarterly Vol. 61, No. 1/2 Special Issue on Lynching and American Culture (winter-Spring 2008), pp. 5-21.
Amy Louise Wood, Lynching and Spectacle: Witnessing Racial Violence in America, 1890-1940 (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2011)
Richard Wormser, The Rise and Fall of Jim Crow (New York: St. Martin’s Press, 2004)
George Wright, A History of Blacks in Kentucky: In Pursuit of Equality, 1890 – 1980 (Lexington, KY: The University Press of Kentucky, 2008)
_____, Racial Violence in Kentucky: Lynching, Mob Rule, and “Legal Lynchings” (Baton Rouge, LA: Louisiana State University Press, 1996)