Blood at the root : a racial cleansing in America /
"A gripping tale of racial cleansing in Forsyth County, Georgia and ... testament to the deep roots of racial violence in America ... Patrick Phillips breaks the century-long silence of his hometown and uncovers a history of racial terrorism that continues to shape America in the twenty-first c...
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Format: | Book |
Language: | English |
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New York ; London :
W.W. Norton & Company,
[2016]
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Edition: | First edition. |
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Table of Contents:
- Introduction: Law of the land
- The scream
- Riot, rout, tumult
- The missing girl
- And the mob came on
- A straw in the whirlwind
- The devil's own horses
- The majesty of the law
- Fastening the noose
- We condemn this conduct
- Crush the thing in its infancy
- The scaffold
- When they were slaves
- Driven to the cook stoves
- Exile, 1913/1920
- Erasure, 1920/1970
- The attempted murder of Miguel Marcelli
- The brotherhood march, 1987
- Silence is consent
- Epilogue: A pack of wild dogs.