American Atrocity focuses on Arkansas, but it tells a larger story of lynching and race relations in America. Dr. Lancaster, a native of Arkansas, also gets to the heart of the matter by asking: what is a lynching?
“A must-read for understanding how ordinary people could perpetrate the most barbaric racial atrocities.”
“An important addition to our historical understanding of rural, southern Black women.”
Given by the Arkansas Historical Association to the best book of Arkansas history.
James Meredith and the Battle of Ole Miss
“Opening the eyes of some Arkansans and other Americans …”