In the Pines: A Lynching, a Lie, a Reckoning Hale Grace Elizabeth
In the Pines: A Lynching, a Lie, a Reckoning Hale Grace Elizabeth An award-winning scholar of white supremacy tackles her toughest research assignment yet: the unsolved murder of a Black man in rural…
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In the Pines: A Lynching, a Lie, a Reckoning Hale Grace Elizabeth
An award-winning scholar of white supremacy tackles her toughest research assignment yet: the unsolved murder of a Black man in rural Mississippi while her grandfather was the local sheriff--a cold case that sheds new light on the hidden legacy of racial terror in America.Grace Hale was home from college when she first heard the family legend. It was a tale straight out of To Kill a Mockingbird, with her grandfather as the tragic hero. In 1947, while her beloved grandfather had been serving as a sheriff in the Piney Woods of south-central Mississippi, he prevented a lynch mob from killing a Black man who was in his jail on suspicion of raping a white woman--only for the suspect to die by his own hand.
This story, however, hid a dark truth.Years later, as a rising scholar of white supremacy, Hale revisited the story about her grandfather and Versie Johnson, the