Ku Klux Klan:

Strange Stories, Amazing Facts of America's Past. Jim Dwyer, editor. Pleasantville, New York: Reader Digest Association, 1989, p 36.

Lynching in Clanton, Alabama, 1891:

Wells-Barnett, Ida B. On Lynchings. New York: Arno Press, 1969, p 55.

Public Lynching, 1893:

Brinkley, Alan, Richard N. Current, Frank Friedel, and T. Harry Williams. American History: A Survey, Volume II: Since 1865. New York: McGraw-Hill, 1991, p 492.

Ida B. Wells-Barnett:

Wells-Barnett, Ida B. On Lynchings. New York: Arno Press, 1969, title page.

Quotations

1 Michal R. Belknap. Federal Law and Southern Order. Athens, Georgia: University of Georgia Press, 1987, p 5-9.

2 With Pen and Voice. Shirley Wilson Logan, editor. Carbondale, Illinois: Southern Illinois University Press, 1995, p 99.

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