Summary Justice: The Lynching of James Scott and the Trial of George Barkwell in Columbia, Missouri, 1923 - Softcover

Hunt, Doug

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1453611851 ISBN 13: 9781453611852

Publisher: CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform, 2010

Synopsis

In the spring of 1923, in a university town that had been proud of its progressive attitudes, a mob of several hundred men and women gathered to watch the lynching of a black man accused, wrongly it seems, of raping a professor's daughter. Hunt's book describes both the mob's actions and the attempts of a few citizens, black and white, to bring its leaders to justice.

About this title

About the Author

Doug Hunt (Douglas Hunt), an emeritus member of the English department at the University of Missouri, is presently at work on a series of narratives about race relations in Columbia, Missouri. His aim is to write stories that are historically accurate, but that take the reader into the lives and minds of "characters" in the way good fiction does.

Edition details

• Publisher: CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform
• Publication date: 2010
• ISBN 10: 1453611851
• ISBN 13: 9781453611852
• Binding: Paperback
• Language: English
• Number of pages: 92