A Lynching at Port Jervis: Race and Reckoning in the Gilded Age by Philip Dray

A Lynching at Port Jervis: Race and Reckoning in the Gilded Age

Philip Dray

272 pages first pub 2022 (editions)

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On June 2, 1892, in the small, idyllic village of Port Jervis, New York, a young Black man named Robert Lewis was lynched by a violent mob. The twenty-eight-year-old victim had been accused of sexually assaulting Lena McMahon, the daughter of one ...

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