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Item Information   Copy / Holding Information     Booklist Review     Choice Review     Library Journal Review     Publisher Weekly Review     Table of Contents     More Content       More by this author     Phillips, Patrick, 1970-     Subjects     Blacks -- United States -- Crimes against -- Georgia -- Forsyth County -- History -- 20th century.     Racism -- Georgia -- Forsyth County -- History -- 20th century.     Lynching -- Georgia -- Forsyth County -- History -- 20th century.     Murder -- Georgia -- Forsyth County -- History -- 20th century.     Rape -- Georgia -- Forsyth County -- History -- 20th century.     Race discrimination -- Georgia -- Forsyth County -- History -- 20th century.     Race relations -- Georgia -- Forsyth County -- History -- 20th century.     Forsyth County (Ga.) -- Race relations -- History.     Browse Catalog     by author:      Phillips, Patrick, 1970-       by title:      Blood at the root : ...       by call number:      305.8009758 P562b     Search the Web     Phillips, Patrick, 1970-     Blacks -- United States -- Crimes against -- Georgia -- Forsyth County -- History -- 20th century.     Racism -- Georgia -- Forsyth County -- History -- 20th century.     Lynching -- Georgia -- Forsyth County -- History -- 20th century.     Murder -- Georgia -- Forsyth County -- History -- 20th century.     Rape -- Georgia -- Forsyth County -- History -- 20th century.     Race discrimination -- Georgia -- Forsyth County -- History -- 20th century.     Race relations -- Georgia -- Forsyth County -- History -- 20th century.     Forsyth County (Ga.) -- Race relations -- History.       MARC Display

Blood at the root : a racial cleansing in America / Patrick Phillips. by Phillips, Patrick, 1970- W.W. Norton & Company, [2016] Call #: 305.8009758 P562b Subjects Blacks -- United States -- Crimes against -- Georgia -- Forsyth County -- History -- 20th century.   Racism -- Georgia -- Forsyth County -- History -- 20th century.   Lynching -- Georgia -- Forsyth County -- History -- 20th century.   Murder -- Georgia -- Forsyth County -- History -- 20th century.   Rape -- Georgia -- Forsyth County -- History -- 20th century.   Race discrimination -- Georgia -- Forsyth County -- History -- 20th century.   Race relations -- Georgia -- Forsyth County -- History -- 20th century.   Forsyth County (Ga.) -- Race relations -- History. ISBN:  9780393293012 (hc.) Edition:  First edition. Description:  xxii, 302 pages : black and white illustrations ; 25 cm Bibliography:  Includes bibliographical references (pages 255-284) and index. 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. Summary:  "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. Many black residents were poor sharecroppers, but others owned their own farms and the land on which they'd founded the county's thriving black churches. 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. In the wake of the expulsions, whites harvested the crops and took over the livestock of their former neighbors, and quietly laid claim to "abandoned" land. The charred ruins of homes and churches disappeared into the weeds, until the people and places of black Forsyth were forgotten. Patrick Phillips tells Forsyth's tragic story in vivid detail and traces its long history of racial violence all the way back to antebellum Georgia. Recalling his own childhood in the 1970s and '80s, Phillips sheds light on the communal crimes of his hometown and the violent means by which locals kept Forsyth "all white" well into the 1990s. A sweeping American tale that spans the Cherokee removals of the 1830s, the hope and promise of Reconstruction, and the crushing injustice of Forsyth's racial cleansing."--Provided by publisher. Genre:  True crime. Holds:  0   Copy/Holding information Location Collection Call No. Item type Status   Tantallon Public Library Adult Black Nonfiction 305.8009758 P562b Adult books Checked in Add Copy to MyList

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