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Title: Without Sanctuary: Lynching Photography in America by James Allen, Hilton Als, Jon Lewis, Leon F. Litwack, Twin Palms Publishers, Leon Litwack, John Lewis, Hilton Als ISBN: 0-944092-69-1 Publisher: Twin Palms Pub Pub. Date: February, 2000 Format: Hardcover Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $60.00 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.71 (24 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: Lynching is as American as Apple Pie
Comment: "Without Sanctuary brings to life one of the darkest and sickest periods in American history. . . . The photographs in this book make real the hideous crimes that were committed against humanity. . . .such atrocities happened in America not so long ago. These photographs bear witness to the hangings, burnings, castrations, and torture of an American holocaust." From the Foreward by Congressman and 1960's Civil Rights Leader, John Lewis. These lynchings are portrayed on picture postcards that were sent to friends and relatives of the lynch mobs. "At a number of country schools the day's routine was delayed until boy and girl pupils could get back from [viewing] the lynched man. . . .The degree to which whites came to accept lynching as justifiable homicide was best revealed in how they learned to differentiate between 'good' and 'bad' lynchings. . . .'The best people of the county, as good as there are anywhere, simply met there and hanged Curl without a sign of rowdyism. There was no drinking, no shooting, no yellings, and not even loud talking.' " The victims were Black and White, Male and Female, Young and Old. Some were burned after hanging, others were burned before hanging. California and Duluth, as well as Mississippi, Alabama and North Carolina lynchings are all represented. Even the Jew, Leo Frank, is photographed. Only 4000 copies of this first edition have been printed. "We must prevent anything like this from ever happening again."
Rating: 5
Summary: truly "without sanctuary"
Comment: I first saw this book on a friend's coffee table, noticing the narrow black and white image, and taking note of the title, I opened the book. My first words were "Oh, my God", the next sentence was "Jesus Christ this book is horrible!" I believe that an image can speak volumes, Without Sanctuary virtually screamed at me. I have an undergraduate degree in African American history and a master's degree in American history, I am extremely familiar with the subject matter portrayed in these pages, but to see that horrifying collection of gruesome images, in a postcard format was almost more than I could handle. In spite of the jarring effect the pics have on the viewer, I feel it is an excellent reference book and sheds valuable insight on the attitudes that formed the historical relationship between blacks and whites in America. I would highly recommend it to all people, especially white people, who often shy away from the more grusome parts of their past.
Once you see the pages, issues like racial profiling, proposition 209, Jasper, Texas, etc., and the continued discrimination of non-white people begins to make more sense.
The title of this book is appropriate too for it speaks to the fact that Black people were literally without sanctuary in the face of a lynch mob.
Rating: 5
Summary: early photo collector must!
Comment: If you are a collector of early photos,and you also collect books on early photo collections,this book is a must as an extremely important part of your collection.It contains several pages of readable text on some noted lynching events in small but sufficient enough detail,descriptions of plates and their photo types in the back,and what other early historical photo collection book are you going such a wealth of this type of portrait?I rate this one up there with Stanley Burn's sleeping beauty(another important photo collector book).There is no doubt that this book is a must!Just get it!
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Title: 100 Years of Lynchings by Ralph Ginzburg ISBN: 0933121180 Publisher: Black Classic Press Pub. Date: September, 1997 List Price(USD): $14.95 |
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Title: At the Hands of Persons Unknown : The Lynching of Black America by PHILIP DRAY ISBN: 0375754458 Publisher: Modern Library Pub. Date: 07 January, 2003 List Price(USD): $15.95 |
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Title: Remembering Jim Crow: African Americans Tell About Life in the Segregated South by William H. Chafe, Raymond Gavins, Robert Korstad ISBN: 1565847784 Publisher: New Press Pub. Date: February, 2003 List Price(USD): $16.95 |
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Title: Southern Horrors and Other Writings; The Anti-Lynching Campaign of Ida B. Wells, 1892-1900 by Ida B. Wells, Jacqueline Jones Royster ISBN: 0312116950 Publisher: Bedford/St. Martin's Pub. Date: May, 1996 List Price(USD): $14.95 |
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Title: The Debt: What America Owes to Blacks by Randall N. Robinson ISBN: 0452282101 Publisher: Plume Pub. Date: 02 January, 2001 List Price(USD): $13.00 |
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