did black people ever really live n forsythe? the image made me realize the image was riddled with lives and bigotry that was a terrible reality. real people that this season of violence of all 1,098 residence as i learned more began to understand how names and dates and places always made racial cleansing seemed only alleges like something we would never fully understand rather than a deliberate and sustained campaign of terror. i came upon this very early being led through the streets of the atlanta with a doctor on the train for their trial but getting a first look at the photographs gave me hope that might be possible to learn through those refugees then what really happened to them in the fall of 1912. searching for every scrap by could find through the archives even the ledgers in the basement of the county courthouse in disneyland history's center bomb -- atlanta history center not only what happened but howl and uh devil was in the details. this is the photograph of the children. the book made out of the material tells th

in forsyth county there's no record of an arrest.there's no record of any legal mechanism ever engaging in response to the crimes against people's color there when they were perpetrated by white people so i do understand what you are saying and it does come from a complicated period at the same time i don't really buy the argument that that's just how things were in georgia at the time. there were people who were trying to stop it in forsyth who succeeded in stopping it in hall county. >> hi. really happy to be here tonight. >> thanks for coming. >> i am an alumni. >> i should say who is your great-grandfather? that's amazing. that deserves a hand. my name is shirley. >> shirley thank you for coming. >> and listening to you talk about the statue that was erected i don't know how long ago in the square it tore me a little bit he does there is a lot going on and i am the mother i don't want to cry. an odd that he would be looked upon as a threat in america. and later on he said i don't want to be that anymore that's what it means that

and they said forsyth county does not know anyone anything. we only overhand out, welcoming hand as has always been the case in this county for 150 years so the depth of denial was jaw-dropping. i'm i was steeped in the bigotry of this place, i grew up there and even i, my jaw dropped when i read these words that the georgia governor, and the african-american reports, self reward from atlanta said that he believed that he said, for too long in this community, violence was interpreted as consent and i put that over my desk. violence is interpreted as consent. and i think what's going on now in foresight is exactly what jason is talking about. there is a real veneer of normalcy, a veneer of urban affluence, there are big-box stores everywhere, office men working the registers in best buy so when i went there, almost no one knows about this. maybe they do now area but almost none of the people who moved there from atlanta knew about it. it's like the hottest real estate market in the city. it's at least until recently, i don't know if it's true b

tell us about clark county and forsyth now. what is it like what don't want to go and visit? you know, i'm not sure. is there any apology to anybody? is there any history about this? i would like to hear from both of you about that. >> so i can answer in the form of, in thinking about my experience, my process of writing the book. in 2011 we had a racial killing in mississippi where white teenagers from brandon, which is now suburban community just outside of jackson went into jackson comment attack a man in the middle of the night, ran him over with a truck, killed in on security cam footage. we have security camera footage of the. the reason i mentioned that, and your description is constructive, is that the convergent paths of southern kennedys is interesting thing to ponder we think about the history of racial violence. because there's a lot that concrete a box towards and some divisions can cover up. what happened in brandon in 2011 when there was this racial killing was that a lot of the cure direction was framed in terms of what a great place was to live now and it was

is my pleasure to welcome the progress our author and poet borer and in atlanta praise raised and forsyth county one hour drive from here he received his ph.d. in renaissance literature off and a fulbright scholar and national endowment for the arts fellow in recipient of the translation prize for for his translation mark. his poetry flexion a finalist for the book award for tonight's feed will discusses 111th book story o "blood at the root" a racial cleansing in america." facing the broader and historical phenomenon thator led to similar violence around detonation and the story that is tragically much larger than and foresight county. into tell the story who have been debased from the historical record i've excited l1 negative excited to welcome home before and this is a most famous figure from forsyth county. [laughter] patrick phillips. [applause] >> thank you for coming and for that introduction with from for inviting me call coming medium history center and i will talk about my book of the story of the racial cleansing 30 miles north of here from the '70s and '80s. because the last

most notable books starting off with "blood at the root" a book on how in 1912 after two rapes in forsyth county georgia they expelled the black population and kept the

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