A Lynching at Port Jervis: Race and Reckoning in the Gilded Age by Philip Dray

A Lynching at Port Jervis: Race and Reckoning in the Gilded Age

Philip Dray

272 pages first pub 2022 (editions)

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An account of a lynching that took place in New York in 1892, forcing the North to reckon with its own racism.On June 2, 1892, in the small, idyllic village of Port Jervis, New York, a young Black man named Robert Lewis was lynched by a violent mo...

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