The Family Tree: A Lynching in Georgia, a Legacy of Secrets, and My Search for the Truth by Karen Branan

The Family Tree: A Lynching in Georgia, a Legacy of Secrets, and My Search for the Truth

Karen Branan

nonfiction history true crime emotional reflective slow-paced

304 pages | first published 2016

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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 1912—written by the great-granddaughter of the sheriff charged with protecting them.Harris County, Georgia, 1912. A ...
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