A Lynching at Port Jervis by Philip Dray

https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/2/audible/168733 to listen full audiobooks. Title: A Lynching at Port Jervis Author: Philip Dray Narrator: Dion Graham Format: mp3 Length: 7 hrs and 3 mins Release date: 05-24-22 Ratings: 5 out of 5 stars, 7 ratings Genres: Violence in Society Publisher's Summary: On June 2, 1892, in the small, idyllic village of Port Jervis, New York, a young Black man named Robert Lewis was lynched by a violent mob. The twenty-eight-year-old victim had been accused of sexually assaulting Lena McMahon, the daughter of one of the town's well-liked Irish American families. The incident was infamous at once, for it was seen as a portent that lynching, a Southern scourge, was about to extend its tendrils northward. Philip Dray revisits this time and place to consider its significance and to show how justice cannot be achieved without an honest reckoning.