Lynching Beyond Dixie: American Mob Violence Outside the South

Acknowledgments

Acknowledgments Numerous people helped to make this book possible. Laurie Matheson once again was a model editor, offering crucial encouragement and support to the project; Dawn Durante provided splendid editorial assistance in the latter stages; Nancy Albright was a superlative copy editor; and Jennifer Clark ably oversaw the final stages of the book’s production. Daniel Golebiewski was an enthusiastic and capable research assistant. Erin Greb was a skillful and efficient cartographer. Others supported the research, writing, and editing in a variety of ways, including David Enos, Cia Lakin, Ginger and Matti Vehaskari, George Dansker, Jack Belsom, Carl Hallberg, Richard Judd, Ed Echtle, Ken House, and several anonymous readers. A veritable army of librarians and archivists facilitated the research, including those at John Jay College of Criminal Justice’s Lloyd Sealy Library, the Library of Michigan, the Wisconsin Historical Society, the State Historical Society of Iowa, the State Historical Society of North Dakota, and the Indiana State Archives. Several of the essays appeared in earlier form in scholarly journals and we are grateful to the editors of those journals for granting permission to reprint. Brent Campney’s essay first appeared as “‘Light is bursting upon the world!’: White Supremacy and Racist Violence against Blacks in Reconstruction Kansas,” Western Historical Quarterly 41 (Summer 2010): 171–194. Copyright by the Western History Association . Portions of Sundiata Keita Cha-Jua’s essay appeared in an earlier form in Journal of Urban History 26.5 (July 2000). Jack Blocker’s essay was originally published in Ohio Valley History 6:1 (January 2006). Ohio Valley History is a collaboration of The Filson Historical Society, Cincinnati Museum Center, and the University of Cincinnati. An earlier version of Dena Lynn Winslow’s essay appeared in Maine History 40:2 (June 2001). Lynching Beyond Dixie ...