The promise of the New South life after Reconstruction /

At a public picnic in the South in the 1890s, a young man paid five cents for his first chance to hear the revolutionary Edison talking machine. He eagerly listened as the soundman placed the needle down, only to find that through the tubes he held to his ears came the chilling sounds of a lynching....

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Main Author: Ayers, Edward L., 1953-
Format: Book
Language: English
Published: New York : Oxford University Press, 1992.
Physical Description: xii, 572 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm.
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