In the Pines: A Lynching, a Lie, a Reckoning Escaping his violently insane mother

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In the Pines: A Lynching, a Lie, a Reckoning Escaping his violently insane motherWinner of the Mississippi Historical Society Book of the Year Award In this "courageous and compelling essential and critically important" book (Bryan Stevenson), 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. A Washington Post