Lynching in the New South

Lynching was a national crime. But it obsessed the South. W. Fitzhugh Brundage''s multidisciplinary approach to the complex nature of lynching delves into the such extrajudicial murders in two states: Virginia, the southern state with the fewest lynchings; and Georgia, where 460 lynchings made the state a measure of race relations in the Deep South. Brundage''s analysis addresses three central que...