A review by jeffmauch
Blood at the Root: A Racial Cleansing in America by Patrick Phillips

5.0

This is an eye opening and disturbing account of the racial cleansing of Forsyth County in GA from 1912 up to present day times. After two crimes on white women where young black men were rounded up as the guilty party, without any real evidence, the whites of the county systematically threatened and forced the removal of all blacks from the county. This on it's own is incredible, but the fact that this policy of no black in their county went into the 1980's and beyond is the really harrowing part of the story. Most African American's knew well to avoid the county, but from time to time one would simply drive across the county line unknowingly and be threatened or shot at. Overall this is a very eye opening account of racial cleansing and white supremacy. While I realize that even today, there are pockets of vehement racism in our country, I just couldn't imagine the level that Forsyth County was on even to the late 1980s and 1990s.