Bibliography: One Hundred Years Of Jim Crow

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Cameron, James. A Time of Terror: A Survivor's Story. 3rd ed. LifeWrites Press, 2016. (Purchase of this book supports ABHM. It is available on Amazon here, at Barnes and Noble here and at Milwaukee's Boswell Book Company)

Carr, Cynthia. Our Town: A Heartland Lynching, a Haunted Town, and the Hidden History of White America. New York: Random House, Inc, 2006.

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