Notes, Sources and Bibliography



White, Walter. Rope and Faggot: A Biography of Judge Lynch. Alfred A. Knopf, 1929. P 84.

The Vicksburg Evening Post reported the particularly gruesome story of the killing of Luther Holbert and his wife in 1904. The newspaper story reported how Mr. and Mrs. Holbert were tied, burned, beaten and were ripped to pieces with a corkscrew. (Cobb, 113-114)

Cash, W. J., The Mind of the South. Vintage Books, No date given. Originally Published by Alfred A. Knopf, 1942. Cash develops his theory, without citing sources or examples, over the course of much of his book. However, pages 116-120 (Section 5 of Chapter I) of the Vintage paperback edition contain most of his main points.

Joel Williamson quoted in Brundage, Fitzhugh Lynching in the New South: Georgia and Virginia 1880-1930. University of Illinois Press, 1993. P. 11.

White, P. 260. Although White did not specifically cite a source for his data, he cites Cutler’s Lynch Law earlier in the same chapter and seems to cite this work by implication.

Raper, Arthur. The Tragedy of Rape. The University of North Carolina Press, 1933. P. 482. Raper cites "The Negro Year Book, 1931-1932" Page 294 as his source.

Raper, Arthur. The Tragedy of Rape. The University of North Carolina Press, 1933. P. 31.

Blalock, Hubert. Toward a Theory of Minority-Group relations. Wiley and Sons, 1967.

Reed, John Shelton. "Percent Black and Lynching: A Test of Blalock’s Theory" Social Forces, Volume 50, Issue 3 (March, 1972), 356-360.

Corzine, Jay, Creech, Jay, and Corzine, Lin. "Black Concentration and Lynchings in the South: Testing Blalock’s Power Threat Hypothesis" Social Forces, Volume 61, Issue 3 (March, 1983), 774-796.

Tolnay, Stewart E., Beck, E. M., and Massey, James L. Lack Lynchings: The Power Threat hypothesis Revisited" Social Forces, Volume 67, Issue 3 (March, 1989), 605-623.

Fitzgerald, Michael W. The Union League Movement in the Deep South: Politics and Agricultural Change During Reconstruction. Louisiana State University Press, 1989. P. 227.

Brundage, P. 13.

Hillegas, Jan. Report done for New Mississippi, Inc. 1994. During a telephone conversation April 14, 2003 Jan Hillegas stated she included any incident described as a lynching in news reports of the time, or "anything that sounded like a person was charged with a crime and then killed without a trial."

Population figures from the 8th and 9th Us Census were used in this study. Because these sources used the terms colored and white, with no explanation as to what defined "colored" I have used the same term in my calculations for the sake of consistency.

When I spoke by telephone with Jan Hillegas on April 14, 2003 she stated that the county cited in her study was whatever county the reporting newspaper stated the incident occurred.

University Commission on Race Questions. "Four Open Letters From the University Commission on Race Questions to the College Men of the South." Privately Published, 1919 (?). P 1.

Cobb, James. The Most Southern Place on Earth. Oxford University Press, 1992. P. 249.

 

Bibliography:

Blalock, Hubert. Toward a Theory of Minority-Group Relations. Wiley and Sons, 1967.

Brundage, Fitzhugh Lynching in the New South: Georgia and Virginia 1880-1930. University of Illinois Press, 1993.

Cash, W. J., The Mind of the South. Vintage Books, No date given. Originally Published by Alfred A. Knopf, 1942.

Cobb, James. The Most Southern Place on Earth. Oxford University Press, 1992.

Corzine, Jay, Creech, Jay, and Corzine, Lin. "Black Concentration and Lynchings in the South: Testing Blalock’s Power Threat Hypothesis" Social Forces, Volume 61, Issue 3 (March, 1983), 774-796.

Finnegan, Terence Robert. At the hands of parties unknown" : lynching in Mississippi and South Carolina, 1881-1940 . Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 1993

 

Fitzgerald, Michael W. The Union League Movement in the Deep South: Politics and Agricultural Change During Reconstruction. Louisiana State University Press, 1989. P. 227.

Raper, Arthur. The Tragedy of Rape. The University of North Carolina Press, 1933.

Hillegas, Jan. 1994. Unpublished Report done for New Mississippi, Inc. Post Office Box 3234, Jackson, Mississippi 39207.

Kennedy , Jos. C. G ., Preliminary report on the eighth census. Washington, Gov't Print. Off., 1862.

Reed, John Shelton. "Percent Black and Lynching: A Test of Blalock’s Theory" Social Forces, Volume 50, Issue 3 (March, 1972), 356-360.

Tolnay, Stewart E., Beck, E. M., and Massey, James L. Lack Lynchings: The Power Threat hypothesis Revisited" Social Forces, Volume 67, Issue 3 (March, 1989), 605-623.

University Commission on Race Questions. "Four Open Letters From the University Commission on Race Questions to the College Men of the South." Privately Published, 1919?

Walker, Francis A. Ninth census of the United States, 1870. Washington, Gov't Print. Off., 1872.

White, Walter. Rope and Faggot: A Biography of Judge Lynch. Alfred A. Knopf, 1929. P 84.



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