Blood at the Root A Racial Cleansing in America [Hardcover]

[M]eticulously and elegantly reveals the power of white supremacy&to distort and destroy, not only lives and accomplishments, but historical memory, the law, and basic human civility.[H]umanizes its subjects and brims with detail&.[G]raphic, unflinching, important.Deeply researched and crisply written, Blood at the Root is an impressive and timely case study of the racial violence and historical amnesia that characterize much of American history. Phillips&is a gifted storyteller.Phillips' book feels timely, unapologetically discussing the way fear, panic, ignorance, and timing may have kept Forsyth County trapped in the past.There are places the civil rights movement literally passed by, and for decades Forsyth County was one of those pockets.Nothing undermines social justice more than our collective ignorance about the racial terrorism that haunts too many places in America.Some would say that Patrick Phillips should leave well enough alone and keep quiet& But [his] voice is too honest, too brave, and too brilliant to be silenced. With a poets gift for music, and with a detectives dedication to the facts,The burden of southern history lies not in what we know about the past but what we do not know. Patrick Phillips uncovers an important untold piece of history& What he reveals in this important book does not make this chilling piece of the past any easier to bear, but he brings it into sharper focus, which is long overdue.Phillips brings a journalists crisp perspective to this precise and disquieting account of a reprehensible and underreported chapter in Americas racial history.A gripping tale of racial cleansing in ForsythCounty, Georgia, and a harrowing testament tothe deep roots of racial violence in America.