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 | A Festival of Violence: An Analysis of Southern Lynchings, 1882-1930 (Updated Edition) by Stewart Emory Tolnay, Elwood Meredith Beck Paperback, 320 Pages, Published 1995 ISBN-10: 0-252-06413-5 / 0252064135 ISBN-13: 978-0-252-06413-5 / 9780252064135 This finely detailed statistical study of lynching in ten southern states shows that economic and status concerns were at the heart of that violent practice. Stewart Tolnay and E. M. Beck empirically test competing explanations of the causes of lynching, using U.S. Census and historical voting data | |