Fire in a Canebrake The Last Mass Lynching in America

Name: Fire in a Canebrake The Last Mass Lynching in America
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ISBN: 9780684868172

ISBN-10: 0684868172

ISBN-13: 9780684868172

Edition: 2004

Authors: Laura Wexler

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July 25, 1946. In Walton County, Georgia, a mob of white men commit one of the most heinous racial crimes in America's history: the shotgun murder of four black sharecroppers -- two men and two women -- at Moore's Ford Bridge. Fire in a Canebrake, the term locals used to describe the sound of the fatal gunshots, is the story of our nation's last mass lynching on record. More than a half century later, the lynchers' identities still remain unknown. Drawing from interviews, archival sources, and uncensored FBI reports, acclaimed journalist and author Laura Wexler takes readers deep into the heart of Walton County, bringing to life the characters who inhabited that infamous landscape -- from…

Book details

List price: $18.99
Copyright year: 2004
Publisher: Scribner
Publication date: 1/13/2004
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 288
Size: 5.25" wide x 8.25" long x 0.75" tall
Weight: 0.770
Language: English