Blood at the Root : : a Racial Cleansing in America

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Call Number: Black Studies 305.8 Ph, Adult Book / Nonfiction / Social Science / Race & Ethnicity / Phillips, Patrick
On Shelf At: Downtown Library, Pittsfield Branch

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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.
"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"-- Provided by publisher.

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Read it. Just read it. submitted by sushai on June 28, 2017, 7:16pm One of the best books I read last year, and probably in my life as well. Told from the point of view of a man who moved to Forsyth County with his family as a teenager from Atlanta, about how he witnessed the ingrained racism first-hand. The historical digging he does tells an amazing and heartbreaking story of our country's history with race relations.