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The Forest City Lynching of 1900: Populism, Racism, and White Supremacy in Rutherford County, North Carolina

The Forest City Lynching of 1900: Populism, Racism, and White Supremacy in Rutherford County, North Carolina

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Series: Contributions to Southern Appalachian Studies, Book 10

Black American StudiesGeneral United States HistoryTrue Crime

ISBN10: 0786416238
ISBN13: 9780786416233
Publisher: McFarland & Company
Published: Aug 20 2003
Pages: 195
Weight: 0.64
Height: 0.47 Width: 5.00 Depth: 10.08
Language: English

Politics in Rutherford County were heated a century ago: the developing textile industry, the growing population, an agricultural crisis and race relations inflamed everyone. Mills Higgins Flack, a leader of the Farmers' Alliance and the county's first Populist in the state House, was allegedly murdered on August 28, 1900, by Avery Mills, an African American. This book documents the murder and the lynching of Avery Mills. The author (Flack's great-great-grandson) considers the phenomena of racial lynching, the Populist movement in the county, the white supremacy movement of the state's Democratic party and the county's KKK activities.

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