Books & Media List
For those interested in knowing more about lynching and related topics, there are many books (fiction and non-fiction) available, as well as documentary DVDs, plus age-appropriate reading material for young adults and children.
Non-Fiction
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- 100 Years of Lynchings (1996) by Ralph Ginzburg
- At the Hands of Person Unknown: The Lynching of Black America (2003) by Philip Dray
- Southern Horrors and Other Writings: The Anti-Lynching Campaign of Ida B. Wells (1997) by Jacqueline Jones Royster
- Imagery of Lynching: Black Men, White Women, and the Mob (2004) by Dora Apel
- Lynching in America: A History in Documents (2006) by Christopher Waldrep
- On Lynching (2002) by Ida B. Wells and Introduction by Patricia Hill Collins
- Ida: A Sword Among Lions: Ida B. Wells and the Campaign Against Lynching (2009) by Paula J. Giddings
- The Tragedy of Lynching (2003) by Arthur Roper
- Fire in a Canebrake: The Last Mass Lynching in America (2004) by Laura Wexler
- Lynching in North Carolina: A History 1865-1941 (2009) by Vann R. Newkirk
- Lynching in Missouri, 1803-1981 (2009) by Harriet C. Frazier
- A Decent, Orderly Lynching: The Montana Vigilantes (2009) by Frederick Allen
- The First Waco Horror: The Lynching of Jesse Washington and THe Rise of the NAACP (2006) by Patricia Bernstein
- The Innocent Lynched: The Story of Eleven Italians Lynched in New Orleans (2006) by Joseph Gentile
- The Crescent City Lynchings: The Murder of Chief Hennessy, the New Orleans “Mafia” Trial, and the Parish Prison Mob (2007) by Tom Smith
- Chinese American Voices: From the Gold Rush to the Present (2006) edited by Judy Yung, Gordon Chang, Him Mark Lai
- Driven Out: The Forgotten Wars against the Chinese Americans (2008) by Jean Pfaelzer
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Literary
- Without Sanctuary: Lynching Photography in America (2000) by James Allen, Jon Lewis and Hilton Als Regarding the Pain of Others (2004) by Susan Sontag
- Lynching Photographs (2008) by Dora Apel and Shawn Michelle Smith
- On Photography (1977)by Susan Sontag
- A Killing in this Town (2007) by Olympia Vernon
- A Spectacular Secret: Lynching in American Life and Literature (2006) by Jacqueline Goldsby
- Strange Fruit: Plays on Lynching by American Women (1998) edited by Kathy A. Perking and Judith L. Stephens
- Flying Out With the Wounded (1997) by Anne Caston
- Witnessing Lynching: America Writers Respond (2003) by Anne P. Rice
- Lynching to Belong: Claiming Whiteness Through Racial Violence (2007) by Cynthia Skove Nevels
- From Lynch Mobs to the Killing State:Race and the Death Penalty in America (2006) by Charles Ogletree Jr., and Austin Sarat
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Young Adult
- Kindred (2004) by Octavia E. Butler
- Mississippi Trial, 1955 (2003) by Chris Crowe
- There Grows a Crooked Tree (2003) by W. Wing
- When I Crossed No-Bob (2009) by Margaret McMullan
- How I Found the Strong (2006 by Margaret McMullen
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Children’s Titles
- Ida B. Wells: Mother of the Civil Rights Movement (2000) buy Dennis Brindell Fradin and Judith Bloom Fradin
- A Wreath for Emmett Till (2009) by Marilyn Nelson and Philippe Lardy
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DVDs
- The Untold Story of Emmett Louis Till (2004) directed by Keith A. Beauchamp
- American Experience: The Murder of Emmett Till (2003) directed by AE
- Koppel: The Last Lynching (2008) directed by Discovery Channel
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