The Family Tree, Book by Karen Branan, Official Publisher Page
By A Mystery Man Writer
Last updated 14 Jul 2024
![The Family Tree, Book by Karen Branan, Official Publisher Page](https://d28hgpri8am2if.cloudfront.net/book_images/onix/cvr9781476717197/the-family-tree-9781476717197_lg.jpg)
The Family Tree by Karen Branan - “A story well worth putting yourself throughthere is something exhilarating about confronting the past in all its ugline
“A story well worth putting yourself throughthere is something exhilarating about confronting the past in all its ugliness and realizing that doing so has made you stronger” (The Washington Post).Harris County, Georgia, 1912. A white man, the beloved nephew of the county sheriff, is shot dead on the porch of a black woman. Days later, the sheriff sanctions the lynching of a black woman and three black men, all of them innocent. For Karen Branan, the great-granddaughter of that sheriff, this isn’t just history—this is family history. Branan spent nearly twenty years combing through diaries and letters, hunting for clues in libraries and archives throughout the United States and interviewing community elders to piece together the events and motives that led a group of people to murder four of their fellow citizens in such a brutal public display. Her research revealed surprising new insights into the day-to-day reality of race relations in the Jim Crow–era South, but what she ultimately discovered was far more personal. A gripping story of privilege and power, anger, and atonement, The Family Tree transports readers to a small Southern town steeped in racial tension and bound by powerful family ties. What emerges is a searing examination of the violence that occurred on that awful day in 1912—the echoes of which still resound today—and the knowledge that it is only through facing our ugliest truths that we can move forward to a place of understanding.
“A story well worth putting yourself throughthere is something exhilarating about confronting the past in all its ugliness and realizing that doing so has made you stronger” (The Washington Post).Harris County, Georgia, 1912. A white man, the beloved nephew of the county sheriff, is shot dead on the porch of a black woman. Days later, the sheriff sanctions the lynching of a black woman and three black men, all of them innocent. For Karen Branan, the great-granddaughter of that sheriff, this isn’t just history—this is family history. Branan spent nearly twenty years combing through diaries and letters, hunting for clues in libraries and archives throughout the United States and interviewing community elders to piece together the events and motives that led a group of people to murder four of their fellow citizens in such a brutal public display. Her research revealed surprising new insights into the day-to-day reality of race relations in the Jim Crow–era South, but what she ultimately discovered was far more personal. A gripping story of privilege and power, anger, and atonement, The Family Tree transports readers to a small Southern town steeped in racial tension and bound by powerful family ties. What emerges is a searing examination of the violence that occurred on that awful day in 1912—the echoes of which still resound today—and the knowledge that it is only through facing our ugliest truths that we can move forward to a place of understanding.
![The Family Tree, Book by Karen Branan, Official Publisher Page](https://static.wixstatic.com/media/188a88_1f9ce4e797a3488da5e68bd159fb90a0.jpg/v1/fill/w_437,h_1740,al_c,q_85,enc_auto/188a88_1f9ce4e797a3488da5e68bd159fb90a0.jpg)
Books by Karen Branan
![The Family Tree, Book by Karen Branan, Official Publisher Page](http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-uEGDP_9Vq8w/VnF7zOGsnDI/AAAAAAAAF-I/pOWxvsAiEQg/s1600/9780802124487_9efff.jpg)
Read in Colour: December 2015
![The Family Tree, Book by Karen Branan, Official Publisher Page](https://img.yumpu.com/7332954/1/500x640/hagan-emma-lou-hagen-elmers-genealogy-library.jpg)
HAGAN, Emma Lou Hagen - Elmer's Genealogy Library
![The Family Tree, Book by Karen Branan, Official Publisher Page](https://gswebb.files.wordpress.com/2016/12/birds-art-life-9781501154201_hr.jpg?w=245&h=362)
8 Hamilton Ave. Reading, writing & other mysteries
Scriptural Counseling: A God-Centered Method
![The Family Tree, Book by Karen Branan, Official Publisher Page](https://images.pres-outlook.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/10/the-family-tree-9781476717180_hr.jpg)
The Family Tree: A Lynching in Georgia, a Legacy of Secrets, and
![The Family Tree, Book by Karen Branan, Official Publisher Page](https://cdn.kobo.com/book-images/092edc91-a523-40f0-a4f7-c9f18dfb060c/1200/1200/False/hidden-history-of-roanoke-1.jpg)
Hidden History of Roanoke eBook by Nelson Harris - EPUB Book
![The Family Tree, Book by Karen Branan, Official Publisher Page](https://d3fa68hw0m2vcc.cloudfront.net/e9a/299028474.jpeg)
The Family Tree By Sairish Hussain – We All Bleed The, 57% OFF
Protecting Vulnerable Groups: Scottish Vetting and Barring Scheme
![The Family Tree, Book by Karen Branan, Official Publisher Page](https://dokumen.pub/img/whose-america-culture-wars-in-the-public-schools-9780226820408.jpg)
Whose America?: Culture Wars in the Public Schools 9780226820408
Recommended for you
You may also like