Lynching Beyond Dixie: American Mob Violence Outside the South

Contributors

Contributors Jack S. Blocker Jr. is professor emeritus at Huron University College , the University of Western Ontario, and is adjunct research professor at the University of Western Ontario. He is also past president of the Alcohol and Temperance History Group (now the Alcohol and Drugs History Society) and of the Society for Historians of the Gilded Age and Progressive Era. His books include A Little More Freedom: African Americans Enter the Urban Midwest, 1860–1930 (2008), American Temperance Movements : Cycles of Reform (1989), and five other authored or edited books on the history of alcohol use and its social response. Brent M. S. Campney is assistant professor in the Department of History and Philosophy at the University of Texas-Pan American. He has published articles in Southern Spaces, Kansas History, Georgia Historical Quarterly, and Western Historical Quarterly. He is currently preparing a book manuscript entitled ‘And This in Free Kansas’: White Supremacy and Racist Violence in Kansas, 1854–1920. William D. Carrigan is professor of history at Rowan University. His books are The Making of a Lynching Culture: Violence and Vigilantism in Central Texas, 1836–1916 (2004) and Forgotten Dead: Mob Violence against Persons of Mexican Descent in the United States, 1848–1928 (forthcoming). Sundiata Keita Cha-Jua is associate professor of history and African American Studies at the University of Illinois at ChampaignUrbana . His books are America’s First Black Town: Brooklyn, Illinois, 1830– 1915 (2002) and Race Struggles (with Theodore Koditschek and Helen A. Neville) (2009). • 320 • Contributors Dennis B. Downey is professor of history at Millersville University. He has published articles in Pennsylvania History, Delaware History, and other journals. His books include (with Raymond Hyser) Coatesville and the Lynching of Zachariah Walker: Death in a Pennsylvania Steel Town (2011), A Season of Renewal: The World’s Columbian Exposition and Victorian America (2002), and Dictionary of Pennsylvania History (2006). Larry R. Gerlach is professor of history at The University of Utah. In addition to numerous books and articles on the American Revolution, his publications range from articles on lynchings and religion to Blazing Crosses in Zion: The Ku Klux Klan in Utah, The Men in Blue: Conversation with Umpires, and The Winter Olympics: From Chamonix to Salt Lake City. Kimberley Mangun is an assistant professor of communication at The University of Utah. She has published articles in American Journalism , Oregon Historical Quarterly, Pacific Northwest Quarterly, African American National Biography, and Voices from within the Veil: African Americans and the Experience of Democracy, and in online encyclopedias including BlackPast. org. Her book, A Force for Change: Beatrice Morrow Cannady and the Struggle for Civil Rights in Oregon, 1912–1936, was published in 2010. Helen McLure completed a PhD dissertation in 2009 at Southern Methodist University on the history of the lynching of women and children in the American West. She has published articles in Southwestern Historical Quarterly and Western Historical Quarterly. Michael J. Pfeifer is associate professor of history at John Jay College of Criminal Justice, The City University of New York. He has published articles in the Journal of American History, Louisiana History, Western Legal History, American Nineteenth Century History, The Annals of Iowa, Pacific Northwest Quarterly, and other journals. His books are Rough Justice: Lynching and American Society, 1874–1947 (2004) and The Roots of Rough Justice: Origins of American Lynching (2011). Christopher Waldrep is Pasker Professor of History at San Francisco State University. His articles have appeared in the American Historical Review, the Journal of American History, the Journal of Southern History, Civil War History, Perspectives, and other journals. His recent books include The Many Faces of Judge Lynch: Extralegal Violence and Punishment in America (2002), African Americans Confront Lynching: Strategies of Resistance • 321 • Contributors from the Civil War to the Civil Rights Era (2009), and, as editor, Lynching in America: A History in Documents (2006). Clive Webb is Reader in North American History at the University of Sussex, U.K. His books are Fight against Fear: Southern Jews and Black Civil Rights (2001), Race in the American South: From Slavery to Civil Rights (with David Brown) (2007), Massive Resistance: Southern Opposition to the Second Reconstruction (as editor) (2005), and Forgotten Dead: Mob Violence against Persons of Mexican Descent in the United States, 1848–1928 (forthcoming). Dena Lynn Winslow completed a PhD dissertation at the University of Maine in 2000 on the 1873 lynching of James Cullen. She has published articles and books on...