![]() Through testimonies, investigative reports, laws Lynching and how strongly, intricately the roots of lynching is sewn into theįabric of America’s being. Provides and unbiased, unflinching, all encompassing view of the basis of "protecting our white women from these blackīrutal beasts", library dust and shame, At The Hands of Persons Unknown ![]() To validate lynching, and the real motives behind the dastardly acts. Dray scrutinizes the justifications that America’s white folks used I won’t say that the book gave me any warm and fuzzy feelings, because Of Philip Dray’s excellent historical examination of a true American phenomenon, Thus, began my journey into our violent past between, on, and about the pages ![]() ![]() The root, Black body swinging in the Southern breeze, Strange fruit hanging from Singing, "Southern trees bear a strange fruit, Blood on the leaves and blood at Unknown by Philip Dray, as I looked at the book jacket front cover, straightĪway, my mind’s voice (which sounds amazingly like Billie Holiday) started Before I read the first word on the first page of At The Hands Of Persons ![]()
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