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[Kidada E. Williams] ☆ They Left Great Marks on Me: African American Testimonies of Racial Violence from Emancipation to World War I ↠ Download Online eBook or Kindle ePUB. They Left Great Marks on Me: African American Testimonies of Racial Violence from Emancipation to World War I This history fostered an oppositional consciousness to racial violence that inspired African Americans to form and support campaigns to end violence. In this evocative and deeply moving history Kidada Williams examines African Americans’ testimonies about racial violence. For many victims and witnesses of the assaults, rapes, murders, nightrides, lynchings, and other bloody acts that followed, the suffering this violence engendered was at once too painful to put into words yet too ho
| Title | : | They Left Great Marks on Me: African American Testimonies of Racial Violence from Emancipation to World War I |
| Author | : | |
| Rating | : | 4.53 (687 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0814795358 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 293 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2016-05-23 |
| Language | : | English |
Pfeifer,American Historical Review"Williams analyzes one means by which African Americans resisted the brutalities of white violence from 1865 through the 1920s and the impact of this activity to support the subsequent successes of the post-WWII civil rights movements. Williams also helps re-center the discussion of white-on-black violence in the late nineteenth century, which all too often focuses on the most spectacular form of violence during that period, lynching, to the detriment of the more common and arguably more important day-to-day violence suffered by African Americans. She convincingly argues that this act of testifying itself was one of the galvanizing forces for the movement that eventually produced a host of civil rights activists at the turn of the twentieth century. "In her important, beautifully written book, Kidada E. Crowther,CHOICE&ldquo
This history fostered an oppositional consciousness to racial violence that inspired African Americans to form and support campaigns to end violence. In this evocative and deeply moving history Kidada Williams examines African Americans’ testimonies about racial violence. For many victims and witnesses of the assaults, rapes, murders, nightrides, lynchings, and other bloody acts that followed, the suffering this violence engendered was at once too painful to put into words yet too horrible to suppress. By using both oral and print culture to testify about violence, victims and witnesses hoped they would be able to graphically disseminate enough knowledge about its occurrence and inspire Americans to take action to end it. In the process of testifying, these people created a vernacular history of the violence they endured and witnessed, as well as the identities that grew from the experience of violence. Well after slavery was abolished, its legacy of violence left deep wounds on African Americans’ bodies, minds, and lives. The resulting crusades against racial violence became one of the political training grounds for the civil rights movement.
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