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Resources

Below are the book, article and website, and video recommendations of several people. If you don’t see a resource that you like listed, please contact us and it will be added.

 

Books

  • “Legends and Roots”, contains stories from former and current residents of the county and it covers people and occurrences dating from 1827 to the present including many from the pre-civil rights era.  The book is still in print and available for sale by mail order.  Information at: sethnor@mindspring.com.

  • And the Dead Shall Rise: The Murder of Mary Phagen and the Lynching of Leo Frank, Steve Oney

  • At the Hands of Persons Unknown, Philip Dray

  • Blood at the Root: A Racial Cleansing in America, Patrick Phillips (1912, Forsyth County, GA)

  • The Color of Law: A Forgotten History of How Our Federal Government Segregated America, Richard Rothstein

  • The Cross and the Lynching Tree, James H. Cone

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

  • How the Word is Passed, Clint Smith

  • The Invention of the White Race, Theodore W. Allen

  • Just Mercy, Bryan Stevenson

  • Killers of the Dream, Lillian Smith

  • The Last Lynching: How a Gruesome Mass Murder Rocked a Small Georgia Town, Anthony S. Pitch (note: it happened in Monroe, a year before Henry Gilbert was lynched in Hamilton, so not actually the last. Gilbert’s was not called a lynching until recent years.)

  • Living Into God’s Dream: Dismantling Racism in America, ed. by Catherine Meeks

  • The Lyncher in Me: A Search for Redemption in the Face of History, Warren Read

  • Lynch Law in Georgia, Ida B. Wells Barnett

  • Negrophobia: A Race Riot in Atlanta 1906, Mark Bauerlein

  • On the Courthouse Lawn: Confronting the Legacy of Lynching in the Twenty-first Century, Sherilyn A. Ifill

  • Policing the Black Man: Arrest, Prosecution, and Imprisonment, edited by Angela J. Davis*

  • Stamped from the Beginning: The Definitive History of Racist Ideas in America, Ibram X. Kendi.

  • Tacit Racism,  Anne Warfield Rawls and Waverly Duck

  • A Time of Terror: A Survivor’s Story, James Cameron (founder of America’s Black Holocaust Memorial)

  • Red Clay, White Water, and Blues: A History of Columbus, Georgia, Virginia E. Causey

  • The Way It Was in Georgia: The Black Experience in Georgia, Donald L. Grant

  • What Virtue There is in Fire: Cultural Memory and the Lynching of Sam Hose, Edwin T. Arnold (Palmetto, GA)

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*Davis is a descendant of John Moore, lynched in Hamilton in 1912; Branan is a descendant of Sheriff Hadley, who allowed Moore’s lynching, and was kin to him.

 

Articles, websites, FB pages (click to go to site)

 

Video/Film

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