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Fire in a Canebrake : The Last Mass Lynching in America
Fire in a Canebrake The Last Mass Lynching in America
Author: Laura Wexler
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...  more »
ISBN-13: 9780684868172
ISBN-10: 0684868172
Publication Date: 12/30/2003
Pages: 288
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Publisher: Scribner
Book Type: Paperback
Other Versions: Hardcover
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Giggy avatar reviewed Fire in a Canebrake : The Last Mass Lynching in America on + 42 more book reviews
I read this book while a resident of Walton County, the setting of this book. It's a story that ALL of our country should hear--ever mindful that "those who do not remember the past are destined to repeat it".
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A story told about the last lynching in Monroe Georiga.


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