LYNCHING IN AMERICA'S GRIM LEGACY.(Entertainment/Weekend/Spotlight)(Review)

Rocky Mountain News (Denver, CO) | January 18, 2002 | Copyright

Byline: Laurence Washington

At the Hands of Persons Unknown: The Lynching of Black America

By Philip Dray

Random House, 502 pages, $29.95.

Grade: A

Melby Dotson was twitching violently in his sleep. The black laborer, traveling by train through Baton Rouge, La., had dozed off and was dreaming he was being lynched.

The train's conductor woke Dotson from his nightmare and said he was disturbing the other passengers. Dotson took one look at the conductor's uniform, and still half asleep but now startled, drew a pistol from ...

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