While the lynchings were devastating, the little-known contemporary consequences, such as the marginalization of political and economic development for blacks, are equally pernicious. Nearly 5,000 black Americans were lynched between 18, and as Sherrilyn Ifill argues, the effects of this racial trauma continue to resound. Reconciliation and lynching in international context - Breaking the silence: "words are the most powerful tools of all" - Confronting the role of institutions in racial/ethnic violence - Reconciliation in the twenty-first century Truth and reconciliation for lynching in the twenty-first century. A conversation on race: lynching and the courthouse lawn - Mob rule on the shore, 1931-1933 - A conspiracy of silence: ordinary people and complicity in lynching - "The law in all its majesty" - "Serving the peninsula": local newspapers and lynching - pt. A season of madness: twentieth-century lynching on the Eastern Shore. Includes bibliographical references (pages 179-191) and index
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