| Edition |
Unabridged. |
| Description |
1 online resource (1 audio file (7 hr., 09 min., 02 sec.)) |
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audio file rda |
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Electronic audiobook |
| Note |
Downloadable audio file. |
| Performer |
Read by the author. |
| Summary |
"Forsyth County, Georgia, at the turn of the twentieth century was home to a large African American community ... But then in September of 1912, three young black laborers were accused of raping and murdering a white girl. 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, as locals kept Forsyth 'all white' well into the 1990s."--Publisher description. |
| 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. |
| Subject |
Racism -- Georgia -- Forsyth County -- History -- 20th century.
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Racism -- United States -- History -- 20th century.
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Forced migration.
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Forsyth County (Ga.) -- Race relations -- History.
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United States -- Race relations -- History.
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SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Discrimination & Race Relations.
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SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Minority Studies.
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Racism. (OCoLC)fst01086616
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Forced migration. (OCoLC)fst00931606
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Race relations. (OCoLC)fst01086509
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United States. (OCoLC)fst01204155
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Georgia -- Forsyth County.
(OCoLC)fst01213617
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| Chronological Term |
1900-1999
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| Genre/Form |
Downloadable audiobooks.
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Audiobooks. (OCoLC)fst01726208
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History. (OCoLC)fst01411628
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Audiobooks.
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| ISBN |
9781524722524 (electronic audio bk.) |
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1524722529 (electronic audio bk.) |
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