1st Edition

A Social History of Racial Violence

Edited By Allen Grimshaw Copyright 1969
574 Pages
by Routledge

576 Pages
by Routledge

571 Pages
by Routledge

No topic has been discussed at greater length or with more vigor than the racial confrontations of the 1960s. Events of these years left behind hundreds dead; thousands injured and arrested, property damage beyond toll, and a population both outraged and conscience stricken. Researchers have offered a variety of explanations for this largely urban violence. Although many Americans reacted as if... Read more
Preface; Introduction; I: The History of Negro-White Violence in America; 1: Lawlessness and Violence; 2: The Period of Slave Insurrections and Resistance 1640-1861; 3: Civil war and Reconstruction 1861-1877; 4: The Second Reconstruction and the Beginnings of the Great Migration 1878-1914; 5: World war i and Postwar Boom and Racial Readjustment 1915-1929; 6: Interwar and Depression 1930-1941; 7: World War II and Postwar Boom and Racial Readjustment 1942-1954; 8: Massive Assault Upon the Accommodative Structure and the Violence of the Sixties 1955-1969; II: Patterns in American Racial Violence; 9: Patterns in American Racial Violence; III: Causation:Some Theoretical and Empirical Notions; 10: Empirical Generalizations; 11: Theory: Taxonomic, Exotic, Psychological, and Sociological; IV: The Changing Meaning of “Racial” Violence; 12: The Changing Meaning of “Racial” Violence

Biography

Allen Grimshaw