10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «NIGHTRIDING»
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nightriding in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to
nightriding and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
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Us and Them: A History of Intolerance in America
Nightriding. [GER KNOWLES SPENT MUCH OF his childhood in the 19605
crisscrossing the South, stopping wherever his father could find construction work
. He frequently found himself alone in new surroundings. It was hard to make
friends ...
2
Readings in Arkansas Politics and Government
When the Supreme Court overturned the convictions in 1905, planters were
again left without adequate protection against such white marauders and
successfully pressed the state to pass a nightriding law in 1909. Although the law
provided ...
Richard P. Wang, Janine A. Parry, David Pryor, 2009
3
Blood in Their Eyes: the Elaine Race Massacres of 1919 (p)
announced that indictments had been returned against all the prisoners
sentenced this morning for nightriding, and he would later arraign them on this
charge. The maximum penalty for nightriding is confinement in the penitentiary
for some ...
4
Mountain Shadows: A Story of the Rocky Mountains
He already had a start on his fortune from his recent nightriding activities. He
wasn't bur— dened by his conscience. With cold calculation, Elmer began to
formulate a plan for sur— vival. He'd lay low until the messy dilemma blew over at
the ...
Barbara Milne Deutsch, 2000
5
A New Plantation South: Land, Labor, and Federal Favor in ...
They were clearly economically vulnerable, and it was likely that this economic
vulnerability contributed to their nightriding activities. Although racism
undoubtedly played a role, it was economic insecurity and the challenge of the
plantation ...
A week after the killings stopped, a grand jury charged 123 African Americans
with various crimes, including murder and “nightriding.” The trials began in late
November in a courthouse surrounded by armed national guardsmen. The judge
...
Leslie V. Tischauser, 2012
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Tumult and Silence at Second Creek: An Inquiry Into a Civil ...
No doubt some men regarded nightriding as a boring obligation to be dodged if
possible. Others seem to have found it welcome relief from the tedium of farming
life — a chance to get out and ride around with the boys, get a bit liquored up, ...
Beginning on October 27, the Pulaski County grand jury began meeting, and by
the thirty-first it had charged 122 blacks with crimes that ranged from nightriding
to murder. Nightriding was generally reserved for whites who tried to run off black
...
9
Martin Luther King, Jr. and the Civil Rights Movement
Nightriding: White vigilantism against and intimidation of black farmers.
Whitecapping: Extralegal enforcement of community values by secret societies
that was often directed against blacks. National Association for the Advancement
of ...
10
The Journal of Mississippi History
There, Miller purchased a ticket for Washington to Chicago and helped him board
the train. Although no direct threats were made on Washington's life in
Mississippi, danger was constant.23 The prevalence of nightriding and white
capping in ...
William David McCain, 1984
5 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «NIGHTRIDING»
Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term
nightriding is used in the context of the following news items.
Loyal White Knights of the Ku Klux Klan to Protest Confederate Flag …
The effort is a slight twist on the "newspaper nightriding" that the American Knights of the Ku Klux Klan popularized during the 1990s, where ... «IREHR Update News Site, Jul 15»
Global Fat Bike Day: Wide and wild in Swanage
Possibly the safest kind of bike for nightriding, because you can hear ... Possibly the safest kind of bike for nightriding, because you can hear ... «BikeRadar.com, Jan 15»
Bull riding, bull fighting the highlight of Inter-State Fair... - KOAM TV 7
Bull riders will attempt to make the eight secondbuzzer on beasts ten times their weight, with the best scores from the nightriding a second time ... «KOAM-TV, Aug 13»
New Book Recounts Georgia County's Brutal Racial Violence
... black Mecca of Atlanta since 1912, following one of the 20th century's most violent racist outrages—including lynching, nightriding, and arson ... «PR Web, Mar 12»
Mountain Creek VS. Mountain High Final Results
MC: Nightriding ti 9pm, Fri and Sat until 10pm. KINK Nightclub goes off late into the wee hours. MH: Open 7 nights until 10 pm. …Hoof it to LA, ... «Transworld Snowboarding.com, Oct 10»
