Black and White Justice in Little Dixie Three Historical Essays eBook Doug Hunt
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In 2004, Doug Hunt published "A Course in Applied Lynching," an essay that drew national attention to the 1923 murder of James T. Scott in front of several hundred witnesses, few of whom would testify honestly when the prominent citizen who led the lynch mob went to trial. In 2010 he republished the essay as a short book (Summary Justice) that supported a community-wide effort to understand the Scott lynching and its legacy. The volume presented here includes an expanded version of the 2004 essay, along with two companion essays about racism and justice in Columbia, Missouri--a heartland city that in many ways typifies all of America.
"Names" takes us back to the 1830s to tell the remarkable story of one black couple's fight to free its children from bondage. "Watching the Watchers" takes us forward to 2010 and puts us in the jury box at the trial of a young black man who has been tasered and beaten during a routine traffic stop, and who now faces a charge of refusing to obey a police order. Taken together, the three essays give us a way of thinking more clearly about race and justice in American society, about where we stand now, and through what difficulties we got there.
Black and White Justice in Little Dixie Three Historical Essays eBook Doug Hunt
I read this and gave to my mom to read as we both grew up in Columbia and heard of these stories... Good read!Product details
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Black and White Justice in Little Dixie Three Historical Essays eBook Doug Hunt Reviews
This book examines racial incidents in 1834, 1923 and 2010 in the region of Missouri known as Little Dixie and subtly reveals a continuity among three very different periods in our history. Hunt has immersed himself deeply in accounts of the events described in the first two essays and is himself a minor player and acute observer in the third.
In the second essay--the longest of the three--Hunt uses eyewitness and newspaper accounts, as well as court records, to describe events leading to the lynching of a black man in arguably the best educated town in Missouri. Hunt's compressed description of civilization disintegrating into mob rule over the course of a Spring evening seems to race along in real time. Only a few people, one a young reporter, try to stop the mob action. Ironically, some of the most refined members of the community seem to defend the outcome.
The book's three essays provide a remarkable look at racial justice in America. The people of Little Dixie are still living this history. There is very little speculation here. The author tells you what he knows and no more, but his insights are more than worth the price of the book. The writing style is smooth and crisp, not at all academic, and reminiscent of very good fiction. The word essay seems too dry. This is history writing and social analysis at its best. You will find this book almost impossible to put down.
I read this and gave to my mom to read as we both grew up in Columbia and heard of these stories... Good read!
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