TY - BOOK AU - Phillips,Patrick TI - Blood at the root: a racial cleansing in America SN - 9780393293012 AV - F 292 .F67 P47 2016 PY - 2016/// CY - New York, London PB - W.W. Norton & Company KW - Race relations KW - Georgia KW - Forsyth County KW - HISTORY KW - United States KW - 20th Century KW - State & Local KW - South (AL, AR, FL, GA, KY, LA, MS, NC, SC, TN, VA, WV) KW - SOCIAL SCIENCE KW - Discrimination & Race Relations N1 - Includes bibliographical references and index; 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 N2 - "A gripping tale of racial cleansing in Forsyth County, Georgia and ... testament to the deep roots of racial violence in America ... Patrick Phillips breaks the century-long silence of his hometown and uncovers a history of racial terrorism that continues to shape America in the twenty-first century"-- ER -