Blood at the Root: A Racial Cleansing in America (47 page)

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Authors: Patrick Phillips

Tags: #NC, #United States, #LA, #KY, #Social Science, #SC, #MS, #VA, #20th Century, #South (AL, #TN, #History, #FL, #GA, #WV), #Discrimination & Race Relations, #State & Local, #AR

BOOK: Blood at the Root: A Racial Cleansing in America
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Identifiers: LCCN 2016018237 | ISBN 9780393293012 (hardcover)

Subjects: LCSH: Forsyth County (Ga.)—Race relations—History.

Classification: LCC F292.F67 P47 2016 | DDC 305.8009758/265—dc23 LC

record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2016018237

ISBN 978-0-393-29302-9 (e-book)

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Table of Contents

Cover

Title

Contents

Introduction Law of the Land

1. The Scream

2. Riot, Rout, Tumult

3. The Missing Girl

4. And the Mob Came on

5. A Straw in the Whirlwind

6. The Devil’s own Horses

7. The Majesty of the Law

8. Fastening the Noose

9. We Condemn this Conduct

10. Crush the Thing in its Infancy

11. The Scaffold

12. When They Were Slaves

13. Driven to the Cook Stoves

14. Exile, 1915–1920

15. Erasure, 1920–1970

16. The Attempted Murder of Miguel Marcelli

17. The Brotherhood March, 1987

18. Silence is Consent

Epilogue A Pack of Wild Dogs

Author’s Note

Notes

Credits

Index

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Copyright

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