Blood at the Root: A Racial Cleansing in America Blood at the Root: A Racial Cleansing in America

Blood at the Root: A Racial Cleansing in America

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Publisher Description

"[A] vital investigation of Forsyth’s history, and of the process by which racial injustice is perpetuated in America." —U.S. Congressman John Lewis

Forsyth County, Georgia, at the turn of the twentieth century, was home to a large African American community that included ministers and teachers, farmers and field hands, tradesmen, servants, and children. But then in September of 1912, three young black laborers were accused of raping and murdering a white girl. One man was dragged from a jail cell and lynched on the town square, two teenagers were hung after a one-day trial, and soon bands of white “night riders” launched a coordinated campaign of arson and terror, driving all 1,098 black citizens out of the county. The charred ruins of homes and churches disappeared into the weeds, until the people and places of black Forsyth were forgotten.

National Book Award finalist Patrick Phillips tells Forsyth’s tragic story in vivid detail and traces its long history of racial violence all the way back to antebellum Georgia. Recalling his own childhood in the 1970s and ’80s, Phillips sheds light on the communal crimes of his hometown and the violent means by which locals kept Forsyth “all white” well into the 1990s. In precise, vivid prose, Blood at the Root delivers a "vital investigation of Forsyth’s history, and of the process by which racial injustice is perpetuated in America" (Congressman John Lewis).

GENRE
History
RELEASED
2016
September 20
LANGUAGE
EN
English
LENGTH
336
Pages
PUBLISHER
W. W. Norton & Company
SELLER
W.W. Norton & Company, Inc.
SIZE
6.5
MB

Customer Reviews

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Great book

Loved the book it really gave you an insight about what was going on in 1912.

Bee britches ,

Blood at the root

A well written,well researched & painfully wonderful book. Painful because I came up in somewhat similar circumstances in west Tennessee. I am white & don't know which side I would have been on had I been in Forsythe County,Ga. 1912! Dr. James Roy Appleton Jr.

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