History of Harris County, Georgia, 1827-1961
Author | : Louise Calhoun Barfield |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 766 |
Release | : 1961 |
Genre | : Harris County (Ga.) |
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Author | : Louise Calhoun Barfield |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 766 |
Release | : 1961 |
Genre | : Harris County (Ga.) |
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Author | : Frances Pauline Hammett |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 239 |
Release | : 1991 |
Genre | : Harris County (Ga.) |
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Author | : Louise Calhoun Barfield |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 792 |
Release | : 1961 |
Genre | : Harris Co., Ga |
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Author | : Martha A. Sandweiss |
Publisher | : Penguin |
Total Pages | : 392 |
Release | : 2009 |
Genre | : African American women |
ISBN | : 9781594202001 |
"Clarence King is a hero of nineteenth-century western history. Brilliant scientist and witty conversationalist, bestselling author and architect of the great surveys that mapped the West after the Civil War, King hid a secret from his Gilded Age cohorts and prominent Newport family: for thirteen years he lived a double life--as the celebrated white Clarence King and as a black Pullman porter and steelworker. Unable to marry the black woman he loved, the fair-haired, blue-eyed King passed as a Negro, revealing his secret to his wife Ada only on his deathbed. Historian Martha Sandweiss is the first writer to uncover the life that King tried so hard to conceal. She reveals the complexity of a man who, while publicly espousing a personal dream of a uniquely American amalgam of white and black, hid his love for his wife and their five biracial children"--Publisher description
Author | : Frances Terry Ingmire |
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Total Pages | : 72 |
Release | : 1985 |
Genre | : Harris County (Ga.) |
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Author | : Geneva H. Southall |
Publisher | : Scarecrow Press |
Total Pages | : 240 |
Release | : 1999 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 9780810845459 |
Blind Tom was the stage name of Thomas Greene Wiggins, a blind black pianist born into slavery in 1849. In this focused, consequential study, Southall reformulates the debate surrounding Blind Tom and expands its dimensions significantly.
Author | : Karen Branan |
Publisher | : Simon and Schuster |
Total Pages | : 304 |
Release | : 2016-01-05 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 1476717206 |
In the tradition of Slaves in the Family, the provocative true account of the hanging of four black people by a white lynch mob in 1912—written by the great-granddaughter of the sheriff charged with protecting them. 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, and interviewing community elders 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. Her research revealed surprising new insights into the day-to-day reality of race relations in the Jim Crow–era South, but what she ultimately discovered was far more personal. As she dug into the past, Branan was forced to confront her own deep-rooted beliefs surrounding race and family, a process that came to a head when Branan learned a shocking truth: she is related not only to the sheriff, but also to one of the four who were murdered. Both identities—perpetrator and victim—are her inheritance to bear. A gripping story of privilege and power, anger, and atonement, The Family Tree transports readers to a small Southern town steeped in racial tension and bound by powerful family ties. Branan takes us back in time to the Civil War, demonstrating how plantation politics and the Lost Cause movement set the stage for the fiery racial dynamics of the twentieth century, delving into the prevalence of mob rule, the rise of the Ku Klux Klan and the role of miscegenation in an unceasing cycle of bigotry. Through all of this, what emerges is a searing examination of the violence that occurred on that awful day in 1912—the echoes of which still resound today—and the knowledge that it is only through facing our ugliest truths that we can move forward to a place of understanding.