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A Lynching in the Heartland: Race and Memory in America Hardcover – January 1, 2001

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On a hot summer night in 1930, three black teenagers accused of murdering a young white man and raping his girlfriend waited for justice in an Indiana jail. A mob dragged them from the jail and lynched two of them. No one in Marion, Indiana was ever punished for the murders. In this gripping account, James H. Madison refutes the popular perception that lynching was confined to the South, and clarifies 20th century America's painful encounters with race, justice, and memory.

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ASIN ‏ : ‎ 0312239025
Publisher ‏ : ‎ Palgrave; First Edition (January 1, 2001)
Language ‏ : ‎ English
Hardcover ‏ : ‎ 240 pages
ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 9780312239022
ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-0312239022
Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 1.1 pounds
Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 6.75 x 0.75 x 9.75 inches

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James H. Madison is the Thomas and Kathryn Miller Professor Emeritus of History at Indiana University.

Jim’s new book, out in October, is The Ku Klux Klan in the Heartland. A recorded talk he gave recently about the Klan is at: https://www.c-span.org/video/?460982-1/ku-klux-klan-1920s-midwest.

An award winning teacher, Jim Madison is the author of several books, including Eli Lilly: A Life; Slinging Doughnuts for the Boys: An American Woman in World War II; Hoosiers: A New History of Indiana; and A Lynching in the Heartland: Race and Memory in America.

The Midwestern History Association recently honored him with the Frederick Jackson Turner Lifetime Achievement Award.

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Born in Marion,IN, in1945,I was unaware of this tragic story in history until reading this book. I was aware of the differences in color between blacks and whites, I never understood why my colored friends from elementary school were never allowed to swim with me at Matter Park,I am sure my parents gave me an explanation I just didn't buy it. Nor did I understand the notices at drinking fountains saying Whites Only. Walking to a small store a few blocks from my grandparents home I saw apartment complexes where only blacks lived and I recall fear of them...because they were different. This book taught me just how much in history we don't know. Thankful for the people of Marion that had Listening ears for truth and for those willing to tell it.

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Mackenzie

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Reviewed in the United States on February 11, 2014

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I recorded this book a few weeks before I was supposed to. It had a few stickers from previous bookstores on it, but I didn't mind.

Reviewed in the United States on February 9, 2020

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Well written. I grew up in Marion Indiana and found the book to be very interesting and accurate with stories I was told as a child.

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Lisa Stewart

Sickening truth about America

Reviewed in the United States on June 18, 2020

I read this book 17 years ago in a college english class. It completely opened my eyes about the cruelty of African Americans. I learned so much about this cruelty as it still bleeds through the decades. This book is well written, and will very well, change your life and how you see America. I recently just learned (a month ago) about May 31, 1921 in Tulsa Oklahoma AKA the Black Wall St. For 99 years no one in my family knew about this until I told them. I recommend looking into it.

Reviewed in the United States on November 30, 2001

I just finished James Madison's book about race and memory in Indiana and heartily recommend it. I grew up in Indiana and though I was a couple generations removed from this 1930 event, my parents were not. My childhood experiences and those noted by Dr. Madison were indeed similar. "Knowing their place" was a phrase I heard repeatedly growing up in the midwest though I never quite understood it. This book finally explained the very complex "color lines" present both then and now in Hoosierland.
Aside from being right on when describing the mood and atmosphere of rural Indiana and small town America, I found Dr. Madison's description of the characters involved in this American tragedy poignant. I especially enjoyed reading about Flossie Baily, James Cameron and Oatess Archey. These are individuals whose efforts made a difference in their community and beyond.
While some may feel that issues of race are not front page news since 9/11, racial profiling and curtailment of rights and freedoms in the name of security and justice are. As always the way to understand the present is by studying the past and what better way to see the error of our ways than by listening to the voices of the black and white residents of Marion, Indiana?
This true story reads like fiction and the characters could easily carry this story to the big screen. It is an excellent book and should not be missed.

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History not popularized.

Reviewed in the United States on October 30, 2013

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This is a necessary lesson in human nature. My experience in this part of the world caused me to question the reactions of the uneducated white people, when they encounter a group of minorities in a department store. Realizing that our presence motivated someone to set off the alarms and call in all the security. What we have here, is a failure to communicate.

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Matthew Brennan

A Hate Crime Based on a Lie

Reviewed in the United States on July 31, 2017

This book concerns an important event in a town close to my own, but the author's indecisive writing spoils the message. It just does not hold your interest. I honestly wish it could merit a higher star rating.

Reviewed in the United States on October 13, 2013

I have zero respect for manipulation, lies and liars. The author goes to great lengths first to manipulate the motives and intentions of those joining the "2nd klan" and attempts to paint the thousands joining in on terrorizing and intimidating the nation's black population in the 1920's. The klan was NEVER a benevolent organization and the fact is those who joined were aware of the group's history, motives and agenda and no attempt to excuse anything that occurred as a result of the klan's existence will ever ever change that. The klan from its very beginning was organized to intimidate, terrorize and kill innocent black people and make their lives a living hell all because of whites need to feel superior and make others subservient. Hatred was the klan's primary reason for existence along with resentment and jealousy that the south lost the civil war and that black people were no longer as disposable as cattle and white's in the south above the law. The gross injustice committed by the klan fills volumes of court documents of trials across the country however the author repeatedly tries to manipulate the fact those joining the organization did so out civil responsibility although his pathetic, poorly researched claims are easily disputed by a check of documentation citing crimes, thefts, arsons and murder committed by the klan all over the country. The overwhelming impression of this book is that the author is either a klan sympathizer, klan member or had klan family members. Anyone believing half of the author's claims is either looking for a reason to justify the monstrous evil the klan is responsibile for inflicting on innocent people or is delusional or both. TThe author in print and lectures attempts to distort the truth of the klan who were nothing more than rabid racists full of rage at the end of slavery and jealous of the fact blacks were no longer legally subservient to the filth and evil whites were accustomed to inflicting on them - and that whites could be prosecuted after the federal government enacted laws to protect ex-slaves. Slavery was a monstrosity, the klan is a monstrosity and there is absolutely no way possible to hide the fact the organization was and is a terrorist group despite efforts to distort the truth of their origins and history. Terming those who joined the klan "good christian white people" - who joined with full knowledge of the organization's hate-filled murderous past and agenda - is an affront to God as is their rituals involving burning the holiest symbol of Christ's sacrifice as a symbol of hatred and death. The federal government passed laws against klan activity from 1868 on because members were responsibile for hundreds of murders, church burnings and intimidating blacks from the right to vote and the author can attempt to distort and excuse the truth all he wants but his claims are nothing more than white-washed lies meant to eradicate the filth of racist hatred. By no means was the klan ever intended as a christian group seeking to enforce morality - and whether or nor evil occurred in Indiana is open to speculation but the fact remains the klan was organized as a hate group to terrorize and commit murder and nothing will ever change that fact. I was sickened and angered by the author's attempts to paint a picture of benign christrians who happened to be white joining the klan out of civic responsibility because he completely ignores the history and evils the klan was known for since its beginning two years after the end of the civil war. This book in my opinion is a worthless, manipulated attempt to distort history. A worthless read and waste of money.

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