In September 1912 in Forsyth County, Georgia, a young white girl was assaulted, raped, and later died. Following the coerced confession of a young black man, an alleged accomplice was lynched. What then followed was bands of white "night riders"[a] that drove the 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]
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Reviewsedit
Carol Anderson, reviewing the book for The New York Times, said it "meticulously and elegantly reveals the power of white supremacy in its many guises."[4] Anderson commented that some of the book was "weighed down by supposition and tangents", noting that the author "is hampered by the scarce records, biased contemporary newspaper reporting, traumatized family memories and oral histories that are few and far between."[4]
Notesedit
^The Ku Klux Klan had disbanded in the early 1870s and did not re-form until 1915.
Referencesedit
^ abFresh 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.
^"Blood at the Root: A Racial Cleansing in America". PublishersWeekly.com. Retrieved 2018-09-16.
^ abcAnderson, Carol (September 28, 2016). "American Apartheid: A Georgia County Drove Out All Its Black Citizens in 1912". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved December 8, 2017.
Further readingedit
Cep, Casey (July 11, 2020). "'Do You Think You're Not Involved?' The Racial Reckoning of 'Blood at the Root'". The New Yorker.
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