Blood at the Root: A Racial Cleansing in America

Phillips, Patrick

ISBN 10: 0393354733 / ISBN 13: 9780393354737

Editore: W. W. Norton & Company, 2017

Codice articolo mon0000179844

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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.Blood at the Root

Informazioni sull?autore: Patrick Phillips is an award-winning poet, translator, and professor. A Guggenheim and NEA Fellow, his poetry collection, Elegy for a Broken Machine, was a finalist for the National Book Award. Phillips lives in Brooklyn and teaches at Drew University.

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Titolo: Blood at the Root: A Racial Cleansing in ...
Casa editrice: W. W. Norton & Company
Data di pubblicazione: 2017
Legatura: paperback
Condizione: Good