• General Surveys
• Books about Lynching
• Journal Articles and Secondary Sources
• Online and Electronic Resources

General Surveys

Dray, Philip. At the Hands of Persons Unknown: The Lynching of Black America. New York: Random House, 2002. HV6464.D73 2002

Ginzburg, Ralph. 100 Years of Lynching. Baltimore: Black Classic Press, 1988. HV6464 .G5 1988

Pfeifer, Michael J. Rough Justice: Lynching and American Society, 1874-1947. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 2004. HV6457.P44 2004

Waldrep, Christopher. Lynching in America: A History in Documents. New York: New York University Press, 2006. HV6457.L95 2006.

Without Sanctuary: Photographs & Postcards of Lynching in America.

Books about Lynching

Lynching: History and Sources

Ida B. Wells-Barnett (1862-1931): Author

Ida B. Wells-Barnett (1862-1931): Subject

Journal Articles and Secondary Sources

America History & Life

Black Studies Center

Black Thought and Culture: African Americans from Colonial Times to the
         Present

Humanities Index

JSTOR

Social Science Index

Other Databases and Indexes

Online and Electronic Resources

African-American History: Library of Congress American Memory

African-American Newspapers: the 19th Century

African-American Pamphlet Collection: 1822-1909

African-American Perspectives: Pamphlets from the Daniel A.P. Murray Collection, 1818-1907

Black Studies Center

Black Thought and Culture: African Americans from Colonial Times to the
         Present

First-Person Narratives of the American South: 1860-1920

Lynching (Black History Pages)

Lynching Resources (Librarians’ Internet Index)

Lynching: Selected References (John Henrik Clarke Africana Library)

Lynchings in America: Bibliography and Resources (Long Island University)

Making of America: University of Michigan Digital Library

Making of America: Cornell University Digital Library

The Nineteenth Century in Print (Library of Congress)

Project Gutenberg

Samuel J. May Anti-Slavery Collection (Cornell University)