![]() ![]() When did you realize that you lived in a town that had driven out all the black people in an act that you now describe as racial cleansing? TERRY GROSS, BYLINE: Patrick Phillips, welcome to FRESH AIR. ![]() Terry Gross spoke with Patrick Phillips in 2016. It's based on his archival research, as well as his interviews with town's residents and descendants of the black people who fled in 1912. His book titled "Blood At The Root" is now out in paperback. His parents were among the civil rights protesters who, in the 1980s, protested against the county's continuing segregation. Patrick Phillips is one of the white people who grew up in this county when it was still all-white, and people of color were definitely not welcome. And two teenagers, following a short trial, were hanged in public executions. A lynch mob attacked and hanged one black suspect. That was the white response to two incidents - the alleged rape of a white woman by a black man and the rape and beating of a young, white woman who died of her injuries. Little more than a century ago, in Georgia in the year 1912, the white residents of Forsyth County terrorized and drove out the entire black population, about 1,100 people. Our guest today is Patrick Phillips, author of a book about a nightmarish and racist chapter in American history. ![]() I'm David Bianculli, editor of the website TV Worth Watching, sitting in for Terry Gross. ![]()
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