Alex Tresniowski’s “The Rope” tells the true story of an ugly crime and a town’s equally ugly racial history.Alex Tresniowski’s “The Rope” tells the true story of an ugly crime and a town’s equally ugly racial history.Read MoreBooks and Literature, National Assn for the Advancement of Colored People, Wells, Ida B, Asbury Park (NJ), The Rope: A True Story of Murder, Heroism, and the Dawn of the NAACP (Book), Tresniowski, Alex, Race and Ethnicity, Black People, Murders, Attempted Murders and Homicides, Lynching