Often defined as a mostly southern phenomenon, racist violence existed everywhere. Brent M. S. Campney explodes the notion of the Midwest as a so-called land of

In recent decades, scholars have explored much of the history of mob violence in the American South, especially in the years after Reconstruction. However, the

The history of the civil rights movement is commonly illustrated with well-known photographs from Birmingham, Montgomery, and Selma—leaving the visual story o

We forget that racist violence permeated the lower Midwest from the pre-Civil War period until the 1930s. From Kansas to Ohio, whites orchestrated extraordinary

Rock & roll has transformed American culture more profoundly than any other art form. During the 1960s, it defined a generation of young people as political and