"Fire in a Canebrake is so honest, so meticulous, so graceful in recreating a tragedy it somehow transcends the specific events of postwar rural Georgia and speaks instead, in some ineffable way, to America's most enduring pathology. Four bodies fall in a quiet, barely marked place-and yet by the end of the tale, Laura Wexler has us thinking about the thousands lynched across this country, about law . In the tradition of Melissa Faye Greene and her award-winning Praying for Sheetrock, extraordinarily talented debut author Laura Wexler tells the story of the Moore's Ford Lynching in Walton County, Georgia in —the last mass lynching in America, fully explored here for the first time. J. In Walton County, Georgia, a mob of white men commit one of the most heinous racial crimes in . Fire in a canebrake: the last mass lynching in America Item Preview remove-circle Share or Embed This Item. the last mass lynching in America by Wexler, Laura, Publication date Topics History, Walton County, Mass murder, Ethnic Studies - African American Studies - Histor.
Fire In A Canebrake: The Last Mass Lynching in America. Laura Wexler. Scribner ($24) by Jack Gilden. In the rural Georgia counties of the late s black and white agitation over the red clay produced blizzards of snowy cotton, and black picked it and white paid for it and in the end they dumped it into machines that separated the seeds from. Fire in a Canebrake: The Last Mass Lynching in America Fire in a Canebrake: The Last Mass Lynching in America By Laura Wexler | Scribner. $ Information about the book, Fire in a Canebrake: The Last Mass Lynching in America (Nonfiction, Hardcover), by Laura Wexler (Scribner, ) Selling Black Books Since starf; Black Books are for Everyone.
Fire In A Canebrake The Last Mass Lynching In America Free Version [EBOOKS] Fire In A Canebrake The Last Mass Lynching In America Free Version PDF Book is the book you are looking for, by download PDF Fire In A Canebrake The Last Mass Lynching In America Free Version book you are also motivated to search from other sources. Fire in a Canebrake: The Last Mass Lynching in America (Scribner, ) is the first and only full account of the Moore’s Ford lynching, a murder so brutal it stunned the nation and motivated President Harry Truman to put civil rights at the forefront of his national agenda. Drawing on interviews, archival sources, and an uncensored FBI report, Fire recounts the lynching and the resulting four-month FBI investigation, creating unforgettable portraits of sharecroppers, sheriffs, bootleggers. Fire In a Canebrake is about the unsolved lynching of 4 black Georgians, George W. and Mae Murray Dorsey, and Roger and Dorothy Malcom, in Walton County, Georgia. By all accounts Roger Malcom, a tenant farmer, was the primary target in retaliation for his near-fatal knife assault on his white landlord, Barnette Hester.
0コメント