Blood at the Root
A Racial Cleansing in America
Inbunden, Engelska, 2016
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In 1912, a young girl’s murder rocked the rural community of Forsyth County, Georgia and led a mob of whites to lynch a black man on the town square. Later, bands of night-riders declared Forsyth “whites-only” and sent 1,100 citizens running for their lives, slowly erasing all evidence of their crime.Blood at the Root is a sweeping American tale, spanning the Cherokee removals of the 1830s, the promise of Reconstruction and the crushing injustice of Forsyth’s racial cleansing. The story continues, including a violent attack on civil rights activists in 1987 as residents fought to “Keep Forsyth White”, well into the 1990s. Patrick Phillips breaks the century-long silence of his hometown and uncovers a history of racial terrorism that shapes America in the twenty-first century.
Produktinformation
- Utgivningsdatum2016-10-21
- Mått165 x 244 x 30 mm
- Vikt627 g
- FormatInbunden
- SpråkEngelska
- Antal sidor320
- FörlagWW Norton & Co
- ISBN9780393293012
- UtmärkelserShort-listed for PEN/John Kenneth Galbraith Award for Nonfiction 2017