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Item Information   Copy / Holding Information     Booklist Review     Table of Contents     More Content       More by this author     Branan, Karen.     Subjects     Branan, Karen -- Family.     Lynching -- Georgia -- Hamilton -- History -- 20th century.     Blacks -- Crimes against -- Georgia -- Hamilton -- History -- 20th century.     Family secrets -- Georgia -- Hamilton.     Sheriffs -- Georgia -- Hamilton -- Biography.     Racism -- Georgia -- Hamilton -- History -- 20th century.     Plantation life -- Georgia -- Hamilton -- History -- 20th century.     Miscegenation -- Georgia -- Hamilton -- History -- 20th century.     Hamilton (Ga.) -- Race relations -- History -- 20th century.     Hamilton (Ga.) -- Biography.     Browse Catalog     by author:      Branan, Karen.       by title:      The family tree : a ...       by call number:      364.134 B816f     Search the Web     Branan, Karen.     Branan, Karen -- Family.     Lynching -- Georgia -- Hamilton -- History -- 20th century.     Blacks -- Crimes against -- Georgia -- Hamilton -- History -- 20th century.     Family secrets -- Georgia -- Hamilton.     Sheriffs -- Georgia -- Hamilton -- Biography.     Racism -- Georgia -- Hamilton -- History -- 20th century.     Plantation life -- Georgia -- Hamilton -- History -- 20th century.     Miscegenation -- Georgia -- Hamilton -- History -- 20th century.     Hamilton (Ga.) -- Race relations -- History -- 20th century.     Hamilton (Ga.) -- Biography.       MARC Display

The family tree : a lynching in Georgia, a legacy of secrets, and my search for the truth / Karen Branan. by Branan, Karen. Atria Books, 2016. Call #: 364.134 B816f Subjects Branan, Karen -- Family.   Lynching -- Georgia -- Hamilton -- History -- 20th century.   Blacks -- Crimes against -- Georgia -- Hamilton -- History -- 20th century.   Family secrets -- Georgia -- Hamilton.   Sheriffs -- Georgia -- Hamilton -- Biography.   Racism -- Georgia -- Hamilton -- History -- 20th century.   Plantation life -- Georgia -- Hamilton -- History -- 20th century.   Miscegenation -- Georgia -- Hamilton -- History -- 20th century.   Hamilton (Ga.) -- Race relations -- History -- 20th century.   Hamilton (Ga.) -- Biography. ISBN:  9781476717180 (hc.) Edition:  First Atria Books hardcover edition. Description:  xii, 292 pages : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 24 cm. Bibliography:  Includes bibliographical references (pages 263-278) and index. Contents:  Prologue -- My Sweet Village -- Plantation Politics -- The Unveiling -- New Sheriff in Town -- Norman's Murder -- Though Silent He Speaks -- Negro Desperadoes -- Nobody's Negroes -- Vendettas -- Brazen Iniquity -- The Heroines -- Race Wars -- Clutch of Circumstance -- Special Court -- The Die is Cast -- The Lynching -- "So Quietly Was the Work Done" -- Parties Unknown -- "..died with their boots on" -- Roaring Twenties -- The Ladies' Ultimatum -- The curse continues -- Dad Doug -- Guilt and Innocence -- Enslaved by History. Summary:  "The hanging of four black people by a white lynch mob in 1912 -- written by the great-granddaughter of the sheriff charged with protecting them. Harris County, Georgia, 1912. A white man, the beloved nephew of the county sheriff, is shot dead on the porch of a black woman. Days later, the sheriff sanctions the lynching of a black woman and three black men, all of them innocent. The author spent nearly twenty years combing through diaries and letters, hunting for clues in libraries and archives throughout the United States, and interviewing community elders to piece together the events and motives that led a group of people to murder four of their fellow citizens in such a brutal public display. Her research revealed surprising new insights into the day-to-day reality of race relations in the Jim Crow era South, but what she ultimately discovered was far more personal. As she dug into the past, Branan learned she is related not only to the sheriff, but also to one of the four who were murdered. The Family Tree transports readers to a small Southern town steeped in racial tension and bound by powerful family ties. Branan takes us back in time to the Civil War, demonstrating how plantation politics and the Lost Cause movement set the stage for the fiery racial dynamics of the twentieth century, delving into the prevalence of mob rule, the rise of the Ku Klux Klan and the role of miscegenation in an unceasing cycle of bigotry. What emerges is a searing examination of the violence that occurred on that awful day in 1912 -- the echoes of which still resound today -- and the knowledge that it is only through facing our ugliest truths that we can move forward to a place of understanding"--Provided by publisher. Genre:  True crime. Holds:  0   Copy/Holding information Location Collection Call No. Item type Status   Central Library Adult Black Nonfiction 364.134 B816f Adult books Checked in Add Copy to MyList

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