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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.
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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.
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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.
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