Title The first Waco Horror : the lynching of Jesse Washington and the rise of the NAACP / Patricia Bernstein.

Publication Info.	College Station : Texas A and M University Press, [2005]
	©2005

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Edition	1st ed.
Description	1 online resource (xii, 252 pages) : illustrations.
Series	Centennial series of the Association of Former Students, Texas A & M University ; no. 101
	Centennial series of the Association of Former Students, Texas A & M University ; no. 101.
Bibliography	Includes bibliographical references (pages 235-244) and index.
Contents	"Alert, pushing, and rich": the setting of the Waco horror -- "Active for good": The beginnings of the NAACP -- "Yours in a glorious cause": the investigator -- Prelude to a lynching: "slogan is harmony and efficiency" -- An "exciting occurrence": the lynching -- "Enough to make the devil gasp": how could this happen -- "The news will go far": the immediate aftermath -- "Who is she; a detective?": the investigation -- "Inject lynching into the public mind": the follow-up reaction -- "Sheriff Stegall is prepared to defend the jail": change comes at last to Waco -- Epilogue: "one of the best vote-getters the county every saw."
Note	Print version record.
Subject	Washington, Jesse, -1916.
	National Association for the Advancement of Colored People -- History -- 20th century.
	Washington, Jesse, -1916. (OCoLC)fst01857043
	National Association for the Advancement of Colored People. (OCoLC)fst00543609
	National Association for the Advancement of Colored People.
	Lynching -- Texas -- Waco -- History -- 20th century.
	Murder -- Texas -- Waco -- History -- 20th century.
	United States -- Race relations.
	TRUE CRIME -- Murder -- General.
	Lynching. (OCoLC)fst01004334
	Murder. (OCoLC)fst01029781
	Race relations. (OCoLC)fst01086509
	Texas -- Waco. (OCoLC)fst01212112
	United States. (OCoLC)fst01204155
	Lynchjustiz.
	Waco (Tex.)
Chronological Term	Geschichte 1916.
	Geschichte.
	1900 - 1999
Genre/Form	History. (OCoLC)fst01411628
Other Form:	Print version: Bernstein, Patricia, 1944- First Waco Horror. 1st ed. College Station : Texas A & M University Press, ©2005 1585444162 (DLC) 2004016120 (OCoLC)56129375
ISBN	9781603445474 (electronic bk.)
	1603445471 (electronic bk.)

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