On the Courthouse Lawn

On the Courthouse Lawn: Confronting the Legacy of Lynching in the Twenty-first Century

On the Courthouse Lawn was written by and Sherrilyn Ifill. The 224 page book was published by Beacon Press in 2007 with an ISBN 10 of 0807009903. Most books are now available in ebook, pdf and audible formats. If you need more information about this publication, it can be purchased at Amazon.com or Google Books. If the book is older and/or out of print book try to locate a copy on eBay.com. On the Courthouse Lawn mentions 1 serial killers including Anthony Allen Shore. The author Sherrilyn Ifill has 1 book(s) listed on Killer.Cloud used for the purpose of documenting facts about Serial Killers listed in our database.

Book Summary

Nearly 5,000 black Americans were lynched between 1890 and 1960. Over forty years later, Sherrilyn Ifill's On the Courthouse Lawn examines the numerous ways that this racial trauma still resounds across the United States. While the lynchings and their immediate aftermath were devastating, the little-known contemporary consequences, such as the marginalization of political and economic development for black Americans, are equally pernicious. On the Courthouse Lawn investigates how the lynchings implicated average white citizens, some of whom actively participated in the violence while many others witnessed the lynchings but did nothing to stop them. Ifill observes that this history of complicity has become embedded in the social and cultural...