| Book Review | The American Historical Review, 107.4

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Book Review

Canada and the United States

James H. Madison. A Lynching in the Heartland: Race and Memory in America. New York: Palgrave. 2001. Pp. xii, 204. $24.95.

A jolting photograph taken in Marion, Indiana, in August 1930 shows the beaten bodies of two African-American teenage boys hanging grotesquely from a massive maple tree in the town square. Save for one grim-faced man pointing at the dead boys, the rest of the crowd mills about as if attending a county fair or band concert. Several men and women in the foreground turn and smile toward the photographer as he snaps the picture. It is one of the most notorious lynching photographs in American history. It was published widely in state and national newspapers, including the Chicago Defender and The Crisis, which, respectively, ran captions reading "American Christianity" and "Civilization in the United States, 1930." James H. Madison's study of the Marion lynching provides, among other things, fascinating details about the photograph and its impact, including how a local professional photographer painstakingly set up the shot and later sold copies to eager souvenir hunters for fifty cents each. Like the photograph itself, this short book is a vivid portrait of jarring contradictions and hard truths, of the central meaning and complex memories of the color line in a twentieth-century midwestern community. . . .

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