Racial Violence in the United States, 1863 to Present


The Reconstruction Era (1863-1877)

Table I. Violence Against Supporters of Reconstruction

Note: Many of the dates given in the records of the Freedmen's Bureau Online (Source: 7) are the dates that the incidents were reported to them, not necessarily the dates on which the incidents occurred. Where provided, the actual dates of the incidents are used here; if not, the date of the report suffices to give a general time frame for the incident.

Sources:

1) Reconstruction: America's Unfinished Revolution 1863-1877. Eric Foner. Harper & Row. 1988.

2) Redemption: The Last Battle of the Civil War. Nicholas Lemann. Farrar, Strauss, and Giroux. 2006.

3) American Negro Slave Revolts. Herbert Aptheker. International Publishers. 1993.

4) "The 1868 St. Landry Massacre: Reconstruction's Deadliest Episode of Violence". Matthew Christensen. Master's Thesis. 2012.

5) The State of Jones: The Small Southern County that Seceded from the Confederacy. Sally Jenkins and John Stauffer. Doubleday. 2009.

6) The Other South: Southern Dissenters in the Nineteenth Century. Carl N. Degler. Northeastern University Press. 1982.

7) The Freedmen's Bureau Online: Records of the Bureau of Refugees, Freedmen, and Abandoned Landsfreedmensbureau.com. Accessed in 2014-2105.

8) Lynching Beyond Dixie: American Mob Violence Outside the South. Edited by Michael J. Pfeifer. University of Illinois Press. 2013.

9) "'Who Dares to Style this Female a Woman?': Lynching, Gender, and Culture in the Nineteenth-Century U.S. West" by Helen McLure in Lynching Beyond Dixie: American Mob Violence Outside the South. Edited by Michael J. Pfeifer. University of Illinois Press. 2013.

10) "'Light is Bursting Upon the World!': White Supremacy and Racist Violence against Blacks in Reconstruction Kansas" by Brent M.S. Campney in Lynching Beyond Dixie: American Mob Violence Outside the South. Edited by Michael J. Pfeifer. University of Illinois Press. 2013.

11) "Making Utah History: Press Coverage of the Robert Marshall Lynching, June 1925" by Kimberley Mangun and Larry R. Gerlach in Lynching Beyond Dixie: American Mob Violence Outside the South. Edited by Michael J. Pfeifer. University of Illinois Press. 2013.

12) "Lynching in Late-Nineteenth-Century Michigan" by Michael J. Pfeifer in Lynching Beyond Dixie: American Mob Violence Outside the South. Edited by Michael J. Pfeifer. University of Illinois Press. 2013.

13) A Festival of Violence: An Analysis of Southern Lynchings, 1882-1930. Stewart E. Tolnay and E.M. Beck. University of Illinois Press. 1995.

14) Lynching in America: A History in Documents. Edited by Christopher Waldrep. New York University Press. 2006.

15) Slavery by Another Name: The Re-Enslavement of Black Americans from the Civil War to World War II. Douglas A. Blackmon. Doubleday. 2008.

16) Lynching in North Carolina: A History, 1865-1941. Vann R. Newkirk. McFarland & Company, Inc. 2009.

17) From Slave Abuse to Hate Crime: The Criminalization of Racial Violence in American History. Ely Aaronson. Cambridge University Press. 2014.

18) Racial Violence in Kentucky, 1865-1940: Lynchings, Mob Rule, and "Legal Lynchings". George C. Wright. Louisiana State University Press. 1990.

19) Cultures of Violence: Racial Violence and the Origins of Segregation in South Africa and the American South. Ivan Evans. Manchester University Press. 2009.