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The New Encyclopedia of Southern Culture, Volume 19: Violence

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The New Encyclopedia of Southern Culture

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Volume 19: Violence

Much of the violence that has been associated with the United States has had particular salience for the South, from its high homicide rates, or its bloody history of racial conflict, to southerners' popular attachment to guns and traditional support for capital punishment. With over 95 entries, this volume of The New Encyclopedia of Southern Culture explores the most significant forms and many of the most harrowing incidences of violence that have plagued southern society over the past 300 years. Following a detailed overview by editor Amy Wood, the volume explores a wide range of topics, su

Cover; Contents; General Introduction; Introduction; VIOLENCE IN THE AMERICAN SOUTH; American Indians, Violence toward; Arson; Black Armed Resistance; Blood Sports; Capital Punishment; Church Burnings; Civil Rights, Federal Enforcement; Civil Rights-Era Violence; Civil War; Corporal Punishment in Schools; Criminal Justice through the Civil Rights Era; Dueling; Feuds and Feuding; Films about Lynching; Films about Prison; Guns; Homicide; Honor; Hunting; Labor Violence; Literature, Violence in; Lynching; Memory; Mexican Americans, Violence toward; MilitarismNonviolent Protest (Civil Disobedience)Organized Crime; Outlaw-Heroes; Peonage; Police Brutality; Political Violence; Prisons; Race Riots; Rape; Reconstruction-Era Violence; Religion and Violence; Slave Culture, Violence within; Slave Patrols; Slave Revolts; Slaves, Violence toward; Song, Black, Violence in; Song, White, Violence in; Southwestern Violence; Suicide; Vigilantism; Alamo; American Indian Blood Revenge; American Indian Slave Trade; Ames, Jessie Daniel; Andersonville Prison; Angola Prison (Louisiana State Penitentiary); Antiabortion Violence; Antilynching ActivismAtlanta (Georgia) Race Riots (1906)Bacon's Rebellion; Birmingham Church Bombing; The Birth of a Nation; Black Militias; "Bonnie and Clyde"; Bowie Knife; Byrd, James, Murder of; Chain Gang; Convict Leasing; Copeland, James; Cortez, Gregorio; Deliverance; Donald, Michael, Lynching of; Elaine (Arkansas) Massacre (1919); Evers, Medgar, Assassination of; Filibusters; Forrest, Nathan Bedford; Frank, Leo; Greensboro (North Carolina) Massacre (1979); Guerrilla Bands; Harlan County, Kentucky; Hatfields and McCoys; James Brothers; King, Martin Luther, Jr., Assassination of; Knights of the Golden CircleKu Klux Klan, Civil Rights Era to the PresentKu Klux Klan, Reconstruction-Era; Ku Klux Klan, Second (1915-1944); Long, Huey, Assassination of; Lynching Photography; Night Riders; Orangeburg (South Carolina) Massacre (1968); Parchman (Mississippi State Penitentiary); Redfield, H. V.; Regulator Movement; Rosewood (Florida) Incident (1923); Scottsboro Case; Sumner-Brooks Affair; Texas Rangers; Till, Emmett; Trail of Tears; Tulsa (Oklahoma) Race Riot (1921); Turner, Nat; Waco Siege (Branch Davidians); Wells-Barnett, Ida B.; Whitecappers; Wilmington (North Carolina) Race Riot (1898)Index of ContributorsA; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; R; S; T; V; W; Y; Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; Q; R; S; T; U; V; W; Y; Z