Fire in a Canebrake: The Last Mass Lynching in America (Scribner, ) is the first and only full account of the Moore’s Ford lynching, a murder so brutal it stunned the nation and motivated President Harry Truman to put civil rights at the forefront of his national agenda. Drawing on interviews, archival sources, and an uncensored FBI report, Fire recounts the lynching and the resulting four-month FBI . Fire in a canebrake: the last mass lynching in America Item Preview remove-circle Share or Embed This Item. the last mass lynching in America by Wexler, Laura, Publication date Topics History, Walton County, Mass murder, Ethnic Studies - African American Studies - Histor. "Fire in a Canebrake is so honest, so meticulous, so graceful in recreating a tragedy it somehow transcends the specific events of postwar rural Georgia and speaks instead, in some ineffable way, to America's most enduring pathology. Four bodies fall in a quiet, barely marked place-and yet by the end of the tale, Laura Wexler has us thinking about the thousands lynched across this country, about law .
'Fire in a canebrake' is quite a scorcher by Laura Wexler and which focuses on the last mass lynching which occurred in the American Deep South, the one in the heartland of rural Georgia, precisely Walton County, Georgia on 25th July, , less than a year after the Second World War. Find many great new used options and get the best deals for Fire in a Canebrake: The Last Mass Lynching in America by Laura Wexler (, Hardcover) at the best online prices at eBay! Free shipping for many products! Write Fire In A Canebrake: The Last Mass Lynching In America|Laura Wexler my essay online: Format issues and difficulties to take into account. When you come to us and say, "write my paper online", we promise to not just produce the paper according to your specifications, Fire In A Canebrake: The Last Mass Lynching In America|Laura Wexler but also to follow all the requirements of your.
In the tradition of Melissa Faye Greene and her award-winning Praying for Sheetrock, extraordinarily talented debut author Laura Wexler tells the story of the Moore's Ford Lynching in Walton County, Georgia in —the last mass lynching in America, fully explored here for the first time. J. 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. "Fire in a Canebrake is so honest, so meticulous, so graceful in recreating a tragedy it somehow transcends the specific events of postwar rural Georgia and speaks instead, in some ineffable way, to America's most enduring pathology. Four bodies fall in a quiet, barely marked place-and yet by the end of the tale, Laura Wexler has us thinking about the thousands lynched across this country, about law and sin, about complicity, corruption and national denial. On a summer afternoon in , in rural Georgia, a white mob killed four young black people in a hail of gunfire. The brutal killings -- the last mass lynching in America -- led to a national.
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