Description "Wright vividly portrays the clash between racist militants and blacks who would not submit to terror.
Wright brings to light a consistent pattern of legally sanctioned and extralegal Violence employed to ensure that blacks knew their "plac.
The book makes clear the brutality concealed beneath the surface veneer of moderation." -- Journal of Southern History In this investigative look into Kentucky\'s race relations from the end of the Civil War to 1940, George C.
Description "Wright vividly portrays the clash between racist militants and blacks who would not submit to terror