A Lynching at Port Jervis Quotes

“first year to pass without a single recorded lynching anywhere in the United States was 1952,”
― Philip Dray, A Lynching at Port Jervis: Race and Reckoning in the Gilded Age

“a ban on a Coney Island attraction known as “Negro Ball Dodging,” in which whites hurled baseballs at Black men’s heads as they appeared in the openings of a cloth or wooden facade.”
― Philip Dray, A Lynching at Port Jervis: Race and Reckoning in the Gilded Age

“The Civil War ceased physically in 1865,” noted Thomas Beer, a chronicler of the Mauve Decade, which closed out the century, “and its political end may be reasonably expected about the year 3000.”
― Philip Dray, A Lynching at Port Jervis: Race and Reckoning in the Gilded Age