Title The family tree : a lynching in Georgia, a legacy of secrets, and my search for the truth / Karen Branan. [Boundless electronic resource]

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Unabridged.

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[Old Saybrook, Connecticut] : Tantor Audio, [2016]

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Description	1 online resource (1 audio file)
Playing Time	090000
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Summary	Harris County, Georgia, 1912. A white man, the beloved nephew of the county sheriff, is shot dead on the porch of a black woman. Days later, the sheriff sanctions the lynching of a black woman and three black men, all of them innocent. For Karen Branan, the great-granddaughter of that sheriff, this isn't just history; this is family history. Branan spent nearly twenty years combing through diaries and letters, hunting for clues in libraries and archives throughout the United States to piece together the events and motives that led a group of people to murder four of their fellow citizens in such a brutal public display.
Note	Downloadable audio file.
Performer	Read by Pam Ward.
Summary	A true account of the hanging of four black people by a white lynch mob in 1912, written by a descendant of the sheriff charged with protecting them, draws on diaries and letters to piece together the events and motives that led up to the tragedy.
System Details	Requires Boundless App.
Chronological Term	1900-1999
Subject	Lynching -- Georgia -- Hamilton -- History -- 20th century.
	African Americans -- Crimes against -- Georgia -- Hamilton -- History -- 20th century.
	Branan, Karen -- Family.
	Family secrets -- Georgia -- Hamilton.
	Sheriffs -- Georgia -- Hamilton -- Biography.
	Racism -- Georgia -- Hamilton -- History -- 20th century.
	Plantation life -- Political aspects -- Georgia -- Hamilton -- History -- 20th century.
	Miscegenation -- Georgia -- Hamilton -- History -- 20th century.
	African Americans -- Crimes against.
	Family secrets.
	Lynching.
	Miscegenation.
	Race relations.
	Racism.
	Sheriffs.
	Hamilton (Ga.) -- Race relations -- History -- 20th century.
	Hamilton (Ga.) -- Biography.
	Georgia -- Hamilton.
Genre	Audiobooks.
	Downloadable audio books.
	Audiobooks.
	Biography.
	History.
Added Author	Ward, Pam, narrator.
Other Form:	Electronic reproduction of (manifestation): Branan, Karen. Family tree : a lynching in Georgia, a legacy of secrets, and my search for the truth [Old Saybrook, Connecticut] : Tantor Audio, [2016] 9781515901921 (NjBwBT)bl2016016047 (OCoLC)935152218
ISBN	9781515921929 :
	1515921921 :

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