The Family Tree
Book description
In the tradition of Slaves in the Family, the provocative true account of the hanging of four black people by a white lynch mob in 1912āwritten by the great-granddaughter of the sheriff charged with protecting them.
Harris County, Georgia, 1912. A white man, the beloved nephew of the county sheriff,ā¦
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Can I āloveā a book when it is so painful to read? I do, though, in the way of admiration for the compelling writing on one of the most depraved outcomes of racism: lynchings. Even worse, Brananās own ancestors turned out to be involved. This 1912 lynching was of four Black people, including one woman, all of whom were involved in trying to protect a young Black girl against predation by a white man, another of the authorās relatives.
All this occurred in a rough moonshine-making area of Georgia. Growing up in Birmingham, I never knew there were places inā¦
From Marcia's list on genealogy and racial justice for truth.
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