Witnessing Lynching: American Writers Respond is the first anthology to bring together poetry, essays, drama, and fiction from the height of the lynching era (1889-1935). During this time, the torture of a black person drew thousands of local onlookers and was replayed throughout the nation in lurid newspaper reports. The selections gathered here represent the courageous efforts of American writers to witness the trauma of lynching and to expose the truth about this uniquely…
Author: Anne P. Rice · Original publisher: Rutgers University Press (New Brunswick, NJ, 2003)
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