Lynching Beyond Dixie: American Mob Violence Outside the South

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Contents Acknowledgments vii Introduction Michael J. Pfeifer 1 Part I. The West 1. “Who Dares to Style This Female a Woman?”: Lynching, Gender, and Culture in the Nineteenth-Century U.S. West 21 Helen McLure 2. The Popular Sources of Political Authority in 1856 San Francisco: Lynching, Vigilance, and the Difference between Politics and Constitutionalism 54 Christopher Waldrep 3. “Light Is Bursting upon the World!”: White Supremacy and Racist Violence against Blacks in Reconstruction Kansas 81 Brent M. S. Campney 4. The Rise and Fall of Mob Violence against Mexicans in Arizona, 1859–1915 110 William D. Carrigan and Clive Webb 5. Making Utah History: Press Coverage of the Robert Marshall Lynching, June 1925 132 Kimberley Mangun and Larry R. Gerlach Part II. The Midwest 6. “The cry of the Negro should not be remember the Maine, but remember the hanging of Bush”: African American Responses to Lynching in Decatur, Illinois, 1893 165 Sundiata Keita Cha-Jua 7. Race, Sex, and Riot: The Springfield, Ohio, Race Riots of 1904 and 1906 and the Sources of Antiblack Violence in the Lower Midwest 190 Jack S. Blocker Jr. 8. Lynching in Late-NineteenthCentury Michigan 211 Michael J. Pfeifer Part III. The Northeast 9. “They Lynched Jim Cullen”: Story and Myth on the Northern Maine Frontier 229 Dena Lynn Winslow 10. The “Delaware Horror”: Two Ministers, a Lynching, and the Crisis of Democracy 237 Dennis B. Downey Appendix: Lynchings in the Northeast, Midwest, and West 261 Contributors 319 Index 323 ...