Hostile heartland : racism, repression, and resistance in the Midwest
Brent M. S. Campney (Author)
'Hostile Heartland' examines racial violence - or, more aptly, racist violence - against blacks (African Americans) in the Midwest, emphasizing lynching, whipping, and violence by police (or police brutality). It also focuses on black responses, including acts of armed resistance, the development of local and regional civil rights organizations, and the work of individual activists. Within that broad framework, the text considers patterns of institutionalized violence in studies of individual states, like Ohio, Indiana, Illinois, Missouri, and Kansas over a number of decades; it also targets specific incidents of such violence or resistance in case studies representative of changes in these patterns like the lynching of Joseph Spencer in Cairo, Illinois, in 1854 and the lynching of Luke Murray in South Point, Ohio, in 1932
eBook, English, 2020
University of Illinois Press, Urbana, 2020