White Women, Rape, and the Power of Race in Virginia, 1900-1960 - Lisa Lindquist Dorr - Google Books

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For decades, historians have primarily analyzed charges of black-on-white rape in the South through accounts of lynching or manifestly unfair trial proceedings, suggesting that white southerners invariably responded with extralegal violence and sham trials…