Reviews tagging 'Hate crime'
I Saw Death Coming: A History of Terror and Survival in the War against Reconstruction by Kidada E. Williams
2 reviews
plantingneurons's review against another edition
challenging
dark
informative
sad
tense
slow-paced
5.0
Contrary to popular myths about this violence being impulsive and spontaneous, it was intentional. No tactic in the white southern war on freedom was more calculated and staged than the phenomenon of night riding.
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African Americans’ bravery in reporting attacks they experienced or observed—to law enforcement, elected officials, Freedmen’s Bureau agents—and in testifying before Congress is why we know so much more about the details of night riding than we do about earlier reprisal killings and the assassinations of voters and officials.
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At the congressional hearings, lawmakers and the public encountered irrefutable evidence of atrocity and southern disorder, and the social and political aims of Reconstruction were in danger. […] But not enough white Americans believed Black people’s and their white allies’ accounts of violence or assumed a responsibility to do anything about it.
Content Warnings
Moderate: Torture, Violence, Hate crime, Murder, Racism, and Sexual assault
Minor: Panic attacks/disorders
sarahelizabethii's review against another edition
challenging
informative
tense
slow-paced
Content Warnings
Moderate: Hate crime, Sexual assault, Racism, Violence, and Torture
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