On Lynchings symphonies

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Wallach's notes for a course on symplectic geometry and Fourier analysis

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Pallenberg's Wonder Bears (1920s)

On Lynchings symphoniesThe bleak years after the Civil War brought continuing oppression to African Americans. During the 1880s and 1890s, more than 100 black citizens were lynched each year. In 1892, Memphis newspaper editor Ida B. Wells Barnett raised a lone voice of protest and was forced to flee for her life. So began the civil rights pioneer's crusade against lynching. This compilation features Southern Horrors, Wells's first pamphlet on the subject of lynching, as