Blood at the Root
Blood at the Root: A Racial Cleansing in America is a 2016 non-fiction book written by Patrick Phillips investigating the 1912 Racial Conflict of Forsyth County, Georgia.[1][2][3]
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| Author | Patrick Phillips |
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| Country | United States |
| Language | English |
| Genre | Non-fiction, race and ethnicity in the United States |
| Published | 2016 |
| Publisher | W. W. Norton & Company |
| Pages | 302[1] |
| ISBN | 978-0-393-29301-2 |
Overview
In Forsyth County, Georgia, September 1912, three young black laborers were accused of murdering and raping a white girl. What followed was bands of white "night riders" that drove all 1,098 black citizens out of the county via arson and terror. The title Blood at the Root comes from the song Strange Fruit about the lynchings of African Americans in the South.[4]
References
- Fresh Air transcript (September 15, 2016). "The 'Racial Cleansing' That Drove 1,100 Black Residents Out Of Forsyth County, Ga". npr.org. NPR.
- Phillips, Patrick (August 26, 2016). "Blood at the Root (book excerpt)". MyAJC. Retrieved 2018-09-16.
- "Nonfiction Book Review: Blood at the Root: A Racial Cleansing in America by Patrick Phillips. Norton, $26.95 (320p) ISBN 978-0-393-29301-2". PublishersWeekly.com. Retrieved 2018-09-16.
- Anderson, Carol (2016-09-28). "American Apartheid: A Georgia County Drove Out All Its Black Citizens in 1912". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved 2017-12-08.
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