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On May 15, 1916, a crowd of 15,000 witnessed the lynching of an 18-year-old black farm worker named Jesse Washington. Most central Texans of the time failed to call for the punishment of the mob's leaders. This work seeks to explain how a culture of violence that nourished this practice could form and endure for so long among ordinary people.

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Winner of the Richard L. Wentworth Prize in American History, 2005.

The Making of a Lynching Culture

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      Publisher: University of Illinois Press
      Publication Date: 28/08/2006
      ISBN13: 9780252074301, 978-0252074301
      ISBN10: 0252074300
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      Book Synopsis
      On May 15, 1916, a crowd of 15,000 witnessed the lynching of an 18-year-old black farm worker named Jesse Washington. Most central Texans of the time failed to call for the punishment of the mob's leaders. This work seeks to explain how a culture of violence that nourished this practice could form and endure for so long among ordinary people.

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      Winner of the Richard L. Wentworth Prize in American History, 2005.

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