Blood at the Root: A Racial Cleansing in America
Patrick Phillips W.W. Norton ($26.95) by Spencer Dew In 1912, the white residents of Forsyth County, Georgia, forced that county’s African American residents into exile. A lynching—three men killed—turned into the threat of pogrom. What Patrick Phillips calls “a racial cleansing” was a simple enough threat: if you stay, you will be killed. This threat […]