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Blood at the Root: A Racial Cleansing in America

Blood at the Root: A Racial Cleansing in America

Phillips, Patrick

Paperback

20th Century United States HistoryGeneral Racism & Ethnic StudiesRegional: South

Publisher Price: $15.95

ISBN10: 0393354733
ISBN13: 9780393354737
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
Published: Sep 26 2017
Pages: 336
Weight: 0.60
Height: 0.80 Width: 5.50 Depth: 8.20
Language: English

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.

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