Troubled Ground: A Tale of Murder, Lynching, and Reckoning in the New South

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Troubled Ground i-xx_1-228_Cleg.indd 1 9/15/10 11:36:28 AM i-xx_1-228_Cleg.indd 2 9/15/10 11:36:28 AM Troubled Ground A Tale of Murder, Lynching, and Reckoning in the New South Claude A. Clegg III University of Illinois Press Urbana, Chicago, and Springfield i-xx_1-228_Cleg.indd 3 9/15/10 11:36:28 AM © 2010 by Claude Andrew Clegg III All rights reserved Manufactured in the United States of America 1 2 3 4 5 c p 5 4 3 2 1 ∞ This book is printed on acid-free paper. Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Clegg, Claude Andrew. Troubled ground : a tale of murder, lynching, and reckoning in the New South / Claude A. Clegg III. p. cm. Includes bibliographical references and index. ISBN 978-0-252-03588-3 (cloth : acid-free paper) ISBN 978-0-252-07782-1 (pbk. : acid-free paper) 1. Lynching—North Carolina—Salisbury—History—20th century. 2. African Americans—Violence against—North Carolina— Salisbury—History—20th century. 3. Murder—North Carolina— Salisbury—History—20th century. 4. Rowan County (N.C.)— Race relations—History—20th century. I. Title. HV6465.N67C65   2010 364.1'34—dc22   2010025590 i-xx_1-228_Cleg.indd 4 9/15/10 11:36:28 AM To the ending of man’s inhumanity to man i-xx_1-228_Cleg.indd 5 9/15/10 11:36:28 AM i-xx_1-228_Cleg.indd 6 9/15/10 11:36:28 AM ...