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Patrick Phillips

Biography

Patrick Phillips

Patrick Phillips is an award-winning poet, translator and professor. A Guggenheim and NEA Fellow, his most recent book, ELEGY FOR A BROKEN MACHINE, was a finalist for the National Book Award. Phillips lives in Brooklyn and teaches at Drew University.

Patrick Phillips

Books by Patrick Phillips

by Patrick Phillips - History, Nonfiction

Forsyth County, Georgia, at the turn of the 20th century was home to a large African American community. Many black residents were poor sharecroppers, but others owned their own farms. But then in September 1912, three young black laborers were accused of raping and murdering a white girl. One man was dragged from a jail cell and lynched on the town square, two teenagers were hung after a one-day trial, and soon bands of white “night riders” launched a coordinated campaign of arson and terror. National Book Award finalist Patrick Phillips tells Forsyth’s tragic story in vivid detail and traces its long history of racial violence all the way back to antebellum Georgia.