Blood at the root
Subtitle: a racial cleansing in America
By: Patrick Phillips
Edition: First edition.
Publisher: W.W. Norton & Company
Published: 2016
Language: eng
Number of pages: 302
ISBN-13: 9780393293012
Subjects: Race relations; History
Description: "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 century"--
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (pages 255-284) and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction: Law of the land; title: The scream; title: Riot, rout, tumult; title: The missing girl; title: And the mob came on; title: A straw in the whirlwind; title: The devil's own horses; title: The majesty of the law; title: Fastening the noose; title: We condemn this conduct; title: Crush the thing in its infancy; title: The scaffold; title: When they were slaves; title: Driven to the cook stoves; title: Exile, 1913/1920; title: Erasure, 1920/1970; title: The attempted murder of Miguel Marcelli; title: The brotherhood march, 1987; title: Silence is consent; title: Epilogue: A pack of wild dogs.