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Harris Region, Georgia, 1912. A white man, the cherished nephew of the region sheriff, is shot useless on the porch of your black woman. Times later, the sheriff sanctions the lynching of your black girl and three black men, most of them innocent. For Karen Branan, the great-granddaughter of this sheriff, this isn't just background; this is family history. Branan spent almost twenty years combing through diaries and characters, hunting for hints in libraries and archives throughout the United States to piece together the events and motives that led a group of individuals to murder four with their fellow citizens in such a brutal public screen. Her research disclosed surprising new insights into the day-to-day simple fact of race relations in the Jim Crow-era South, but what she finally discovered was far more personal. A gripping tale of privilege and ability, anger, and atonement, The Family Tree transports listeners to a little Southern town steeped in racial tension and bound by powerful family ties. Branan will take us back in time to the Civil War, demonstrating how plantation politics and the Lost Cause activity set the stage for the fiery racial dynamics of the 20th hundred years.
