The hidden roots of white supremacy and the path to a shared American future

"The story of three locations in the United States -- in Mississippi, Minnesota, and Oklahoma -- where the indigenous people were driven out by European colonists, where vicious racial killings took place in the last century, and how these places are coming to terms with the past, creating new...

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Main Author: Jones, Robert P. (Author)
Format: Books Print Book
Language: English
Published: New York : Simon & Schuster, 2023.
Edition: First Simon & Schuster hardcover edition.
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Table of Contents:
  • Before Mississippi
  • The murder of Emmett Till
  • Commemoration and repair in Mississippi
  • Before Minnesota
  • The lynchings in Duluth
  • Commemoration and repair in Minnesota
  • Before Oklahoma
  • The Tulsa Race Massacre
  • Commemoration and repair in Oklahoma
  • The search for hope in history
  • Discovery and democracy in America.