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 Astonishing primary source December 18, 2008
I as first made aware of this book by a college professor and finally had a chance to purchase it. Lynchings as they were reported in the newspaper at the time, a sad and too easily forgotten piece of American history.
100 years of lynching May 29, 2008
A companion book for "Without Sanctuary" Actual articles from newspapers across the country detailing the accounts of local lynchings. Chilling in its reality and matter of fact discriptions of the needless and lawless killing of people simply because the are not white.
Hard to read without stopping to reflect on who we are as a people
Great buy !
Z
 TRUE HISTORY February 11, 2008
I AM FROM THE SOUTH AND WAS TOLD HOW THINGS WERE DOWN THERE AS A KID, SO
YOU HAD TO BE CAREFUL ABOUT THE WAY YOU ACTED, LOOKED OR SPOKE AROUND WHITE PEOPLE AT THAT TIME. THIS BOOK SHOWED THE REALITY OF WHITE PEOPLES CRUELTY AGANST THE EX-SLAVE,[BLACK MAN]WHO WAS NOT EVEN CONSIDERED A HUMAN BEING.SO WITH PICTURES AND POST CARD OF THE DEEDS.WHY ARE WE PRETENDING TO
WORRY ABOUT WATER-BOARDING A TERRORIST WHEN WE USE GO TO SEE A
BLACK MAN BARBECUED AT THE STAKE LIKE A CIRCUS ON SATURDAY AFTERNOON. OH YES,IT WASN'T ONLY IN THE SOUTH,BUT ALL OVER THE USA THE BOOK SHOWS THAT TOO! GOOD BOOK!TRUE HISTORY.
LYNCHING: America' most important, and most denied, CRIME. July 3, 2007
5 out of 5 found this review helpful
This book provides the written evidence of America's most heinous sins, and Without Sanctuary: Lynching Photography in America, provides the photographs that support the written evidence. Shame, embarrassment and denial have kept this common practice (estimates range from 6,000 to 100,000 Black victims) swept under America's rug, and left out of America's classrooms. So ashamed are White Americans, that any mention of other reference materials on this subject, usually result in censorship (even by Amazon). I used this book, along with several others that I won't bother mentioning (because Amazon won't print the titles, even though they'll sell them), to write my book White Men Can't Hump (As Good As Black Men), also available on Amazon. The detailed info in 100 Years of Lynching helped me address the Racial and Sexual stereotypes that have long plagued our society. These stereotypes have a profound impact on how Whites and Blacks perceive, and therefore, treat each other. Lynching, castration, Jim Crow laws, and anti-Miscegenation laws, all emanated from White Male fear of the Black Pen*s. How else can you explain such heinous behavior, and heinous legislation. This behavior had nothing to do with Race-Mixing, because Race-Mixing has always been quite alright in America (as long as it's a White Pen*s doing the mixing, a la Stromm Thurmond). This book is one of the cornerstones of my book's basic premise, so therefore, I obviously cherish it, and highly recommend it. It reminds me of Jack Nicholson's comment in the movie "A Few Good Men": You want the truth! You want the truth! You CAN'T handle the truth! America says that it wants the truth to our Racial divide, but by sweeping the practice of Lynching under the rug, America obviously CAN'T handle the truth.
Peace
100 Years of Hell January 9, 2007
4 out of 4 found this review helpful
As I began to read the book, I could not believe what people had done to african american people. The only thing I remember is being told about one lynching. I wonder why they (teachers) never told the whole truth. They always made sure they talked about how (WE) were slaves, maybe they were to ashamed how white people really treated us.
Let me get back to the book, it is a must have. If for nothing else, the history.
I cried so many times while reading this book.
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