Patrick Phillips, author of Blood at the Root

"A must-read, thorough, detailed and powerful. It's a story we need to know and never forget."

—Bryan Stevenson

__author of Just Mercy

"Extraordinary. . . [Phillips]

lays bare a telling paradox

of historical amnesia and unforgettable terror. "

—Taylor Branch

__author of Parting the Waters

"[Phillips] faces the specter

of a bloody history without turning his back on the hope the present has brought us."

—Tayari Jones

__author of Leaving Atlanta

"A vital investigation . . . of the process by which racial injustice is perpetuated in America."

—John Lewis, U. S. Congressman

"So timely and necessary. . . A

powerful reckoning with the past."

—Natasha Trethewey, U. S. Poet Laureate