CSPAN2 Patrick Phillips Discusses Blood At The Root February 26, 2017
Night riders, torchwielding, mounted ku klux klaners. All my life id wondered if the whole thing was a racist fantasy, just something kids like to talk about in the backseat of the bus. But when i typed it into a newspaper database, up came a list of headlines that, sure enough, told of an 18yearold woman who was raped and killed near the banks of the chattahoochee river allegedly by three black men, and her name was may crow. Theres a photograph of her around 1912, and she lived near where my parents house was in a town called oscarville. A little village. This was me playing hooky. I was doi...