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Author Carr, C. (Cynthia)

Title Our town : a heartland lynching, a haunted town, and the hidden history of white America / Cynthia Carr.

Publication Info. New York : Crown Publishers, [2006]
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 Bristol, Main Library - Non Fiction  305.896 C23    Check Shelf
 Burlington Public Library - Adult Department  305.896 CAR    Check Shelf
 New Britain, Main Library - Non Fiction  305.896 C23    Check Shelf
 South Windsor Public Library - Non Fiction  305.896 CARR    Check Shelf
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Edition First edition.
Description x, 501 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 25 cm
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 463-486) and index.
Contents I: "A veil hangs over this town" -- My Marion -- The survivor's story -- "We never recovered" -- Things I didn't learn in school -- Marion's hooded order -- The three P's -- "They were strangers to me" -- "No likelihood of conviction" -- II: Good history/bad history -- The ironies -- The ancestors -- Underground -- Weaver -- A riot goin' on -- The auxiliary -- III: "This assemblage of pseudo-Americans" -- In his bulletproof vest -- "The white has fell" -- "Nowhere else to turn" -- God forgives/The brotherhood doesn't -- IV: "Truth does not bring back the dead but releases them from silence" -- The reconcilers -- Brothers and sisters -- What Aunt Ruth said -- A few bad apples -- The snake under the table -- Telltale -- V: The return of Oatess Archey -- History-maker: the primary/Spring 1998 -- Unity day: the election/Fall 1998 -- Poor Marion: the rally/July 1999 -- VI: Truth and reconciliation -- Four days in August -- In the picture.
Subject Marion (Ind.) -- Race relations.
African Americans -- Indiana -- Marion -- Social conditions -- 20th century.
Lynching -- Indiana -- Marion -- History -- 20th century.
Cameron, James, 1914-2006.
Racism -- Indiana -- Marion -- History -- 20th century.
Carr, C. (Cynthia)
ISBN 0517705060
Standard No. 9780517705063
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