At the Hands of Persons Unknown: The Lynching of Black America

At the Hands of Persons Unknown: The Lynching of Black America

Winner of the Southern Book Critics Circle Award for Nonfiction

This extraordinary account of lynching in America, by acclaimed civil rights historian Philip Dray, shines a clear, bright light on Ameri…

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