Prologue: tThe organs of the word
"California law": the West and the nation
"What we call murder": lynching and the meaning of legitimacy in reconstruction
"The indignation of the people who knew no bounds": the lynching narrative in the 1870s and 1880s
"Threadbare lies": making lynching racial
Tuskegee, the NAACP, and the definition of lynching, 1899-1940
"High-tech lynchings": making the rhetoric national
