Black Competition and White Vengeance: Legal Execution of Blacks as Social Control in the Cotton South, 1890 to 1929.

Tolnay, Stewart E.; And Others

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ERIC Number: EJ473664

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Publication Date: 1992

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Black Competition and White Vengeance: Legal Execution of Blacks as Social Control in the Cotton South, 1890 to 1929.

Tolnay, Stewart E.; And Others

Social Science Quarterly, v73 n3 p627-44 Sep 1992

Reports on study of economic and social data from 400 counties in cotton-growing areas of southern United States between 1890 and 1929. Finds economic and political competition between white and African-American cotton growers led to racial discrimination and legal executions of African Americans. Asserts legal executions declined when political threat from African Americans was neutralized by restrictive voting statutes. (CFR)

Descriptors: Agricultural Occupations, Bias, Black Achievement, Black Culture, Blacks, Capital Punishment, Civil War (United States), Economic Status, Higher Education, Racial Relations, Segregationist Organizations, Social Science Research, United States History

Publication Type: Reports - Descriptive; Journal Articles

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Audience: Teachers; Researchers; Practitioners

Language: English

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