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Detective Alex Cross recounts the story of his great-uncle Abraham, who, with the help of his beautiful daughter, introduces Washington, D.C., attorney Ben Corbett to the dark side of their small Southern town in the early 1900s, where Ben has been sent to investigate a resurgence of the Ku Klux Klan.
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The author, a long time resident and farmer in Kentucky, considers the issue of discrimination and the legacy of slavery on blacks and whites. In the opening chapter he notes that blacks have suffered from racism, and posits that whites suffer too, from the reflection of that injustice on themselves, as the ones who imposed it.
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"Cotton County, Georgia, 1930: in a house full of secrets, two babies --one light-skinned, the other dark --are born to Elma Jesup, a white share-cropper's daughter. Accused of raping Elma, field hand Genus Jackson is lynched and dragged behind a truck down Twelve-Mile Straight, the road to the nearest town. In the aftermath, the farm's inhabitants are forced to contend with their complicity in a series of events that left a man dead and a family...
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For twelve history-making days in May 1961, thirteen black and white civil rights activists, also known as the Freedom Riders, traveled by bus into the South to draw attention to the unconstitutional segregation still taking place. Despite their peaceful protests, the Freedom Riders were met with increasing violence the further south they traveled.
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Four children witness a confrontation between an elderly black man and a white storekeeper in rural Mississippi in the 1930s.
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The story of one African American family fighting to stay together and strong in the face of brutal racist attacks, illness, poverty, and betrayal in the Deep South of the 1930s. In Mississippi, during the Great Depression of the 1930's the Logans are one of the few Black families who own their own land. Nine-year-old Cassie Logan doesn't understand why her parents attach so much importance to this, any more than she understands the Night Riders,...
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A lawyer's advice to his children as he defends the real mockingbird of Harper Lee's classic novel--a black man charged with the rape of a white girl. Through the young eyes of Scout and Jem Finch, Harper Lee explores with rich humor and unswerving honesty the irrationality of adult attitudes toward race and class in the Deep South of the 1930s. The conscience of a town steeped in prejudice, violence, and hypocrisy is pricked by the stamina and quiet...
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A century after Appomattox, the civil rights movement won full citizenship for black Americans in the South. It should not have been necessary: by 1870 those rights were set in the Constitution. This is the story of the terrorist campaign that took them away.
Nicholas Lemann opens his extraordinary new book with a riveting account of the horrific events of Easter 1873 in Colfax, Louisiana, where a white militia of Confederate veterans-turned-vigilantes...
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After the 2017 Charlottesville protests Lee, a descendant of Confederate General Robert E. Lee, went public with his denunciation of white supremacy. Support--and threats--poured in from around the country, and Lee was ousted from the church where he was a pastor. Here he describes his gradual awakening to the unspoken assumptions of white supremacy which had, almost without him knowing it, distorted his values and even his Christian faith. -- adapted...
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