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1) The accursed
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Language
English
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Description
In 20th century Princeton, New Jersey, a powerful curse, which besets the wealthiest of families, causes the disappearance of a young bride, and when her brother sets out to find her, he crosses paths with the town's most formidable people, including Grover Cleveland and Upton Sinclair.
Author
Series
J. P. Beaumont mysteries volume 3
Language
English
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Description
The body lay amid the garbage behind a Seattle grocery store. It was a high school basketball coach - he had been lynched.
Author
Series
Publisher
Poisoned Pen Press
Pub. Date
[2010]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (252 pages).
Language
English
Description
In 1926, when musician Tom Hickey reads in a broadside about a lynching the Los Angeles newspapers failed to report, and discovers the Negro victim was an old friend. Tom has a dance orchestra to lead and a wild younger sister to raise. Yet he decides to investigate the murder. The investigation earns him beatings, gunfire meant to dissuade him, and warnings from a speakeasy owner and Klansman, that he's made formidable enemies. Among them may be...
Author
Series
Jack Swyteck novels volume 14
Language
English
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Description
When the body of Jamal Cousin, president of the pre-eminent black fraternity at the Florida's flagship university, is discovered hogtied in the stygian water swamps of the Suwanee River, his death sets off a firestorm. And when a fellow student, Mark Towson, the president of a prominent white fraternity, is accused of the crime, the fire threatens to rage out of control. Contending with rising political tensions, racial unrest, and a sensational media,...
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.3 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
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Description
A Coretta Scott King and Printz honor book now in paperback. A Wreath for Emmett Till is "A moving elegy," says The Bulletin.
In 1955 people all over the United States knew that Emmett Louis Till was a fourteen-year-old African American boy lynched for supposedly whistling at a white woman in Mississippi. The brutality of his murder, the open-casket funeral held by his mother, Mamie Till Mobley, and the acquittal of the men tried for the crime
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 6.6 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
Formats
Description
Documents the 1955 kidnapping and murder of teenage Emmett Till as remembered by his cousin, sharing descriptions of life in period Mississippi and how the ensuing murder trial became a catalyst for the civil rights movement.
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2015.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (1 video file, approximately 53 min.) : digital, .flv file, sound
Language
English
Description
Documents the dramatic life and turbulent times of the pioneering African American journalist, activist, suffragist and anti-lynching crusader of the post-Reconstruction period. Though virtually forgotten today, Ida B. Wells-Barnett was a household name in Black America during much of her lifetime (1863-1931) and was considered the equal of her well-known African American contemporaries such as Booker T. Washington and W.E.B. Du Bois. Ida B. Wells:...
9) Vendetta
Publisher
HBO Home Video
Pub. Date
c1999
Physical Desc
1 DVD (117 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Seeking to wrest control of the docks from Italian immigrants, cotton dealer James Houston and a ruthless cabal of businessmen orchestrate the murder of one of their own. Nineteen men are arrested for the murder, with some of their lives in the hands of an angry mob, marching towards the prison gates, enraged, embittered and armed.
10) Ida B. Wells
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 1.8 - AR Pts: 1
Lexile measure
430L
Language
English
Formats
Description
Presents a biography of the Black woman who campaigned for civil rights and founded the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People.
11) Hang 'em high
Publisher
MGM Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[1998]
Edition
Widescreen and standard.
Physical Desc
1 DVD (115 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Jed Cooper is mistaken for a criminal and is unjustly hung by the ruthless Captain Wilson and his nine-man gang, who leave him for dead. Cooper escapes the lynching and sets out on a deadly rampage of revenge against his persecutors.
13) The chase
Publisher
Columbia TriStar Home Video
Pub. Date
c2004
Edition
Anamorphic widescreen format (2.35:1).
Physical Desc
1 DVD (133 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
A sheriff attempts to capture an escaped convict before a bloodthirsty mob lynches him.
Author
Pub. Date
2017
Language
English
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Description
Mississippi, 1955: fourteen-year-old Emmett Till was murdered by a white mob after making flirtatious remarks to a white woman, Carolyn Bryant. Till's attackers were never convicted, but his lynching became one of the most notorious hate crimes in American history. It launched protests across the country, helped the NAACP gain thousands of members, and inspired famous activists like Rosa Parks to stand up and fight for equal rights for the first time....
15) Skeletons
Author
Publisher
St. Martin's Minotaur
Pub. Date
c2002
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
280 p. ; 25 cm.
Language
English
Author
Series
Detective P. T. Marsh novels volume 1
Publisher
G.P. Putnam's Sons
Pub. Date
[2019]
Physical Desc
308 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
Detective P.T. Marsh was a rising star on the police force of Mason Falls, Georgia--until his wife and young son died in an accident. Since that night, he's lost the ability to see the line between smart moves and disastrous decisions. Such as when he agrees to help out a woman by confronting her abusive boyfriend. When the next morning he gets called to the scene of his newest murder case, he is stunned to arrive at the house of the very man he beat...
Publisher
Distributed by Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2007
Edition
Widescreen and full screen.
Physical Desc
2 DVDs (161, 115 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
The good, the bad, and the ugly: A spaghetti western tale of greed, revenge and epic warfare. Three ruthless outlaws avidly search for a treasure chest containing $200,000.
Hang 'em high: Jed Cooper is mistaken for a criminal and is unjustly hung by the ruthless Captain Wilson and his nine-man gang, who leave him for dead. Cooper escapes the lynching and sets out on a deadly rampage of revenge against his persecutors.
Author
Series
The outfit volume 2
Publisher
Five Star Publishing
Pub. Date
[2017]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
pages cm.
Language
English
Description
Life at the Barr-McGee ranch has settled into a pleasant lull of work and rest for members of The Outfit. Life should be good . . . but big Rafe Barr stews about his wife and son's murderer, and leaves to search for resolution, revenge, reckoning. Meanwhile, Black Jack Smith attends a high-stakes poker tournament in Santa Fe, where he encounters southern gambler Colonel Rufus Turlington the Second, and his powerful covert Brotherhood of the Phoenix....
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