This was a hard read.
But a needed reminder to show the happenings of a past not too long ago, as well as showing the horrible consequences of mob mentality, and the consequences of letting those mentalities go unchecked.

This book took me months to read ( a lot longer than a book normally takes me) - It is one thing to know about this aspect of american history and the magnitude of the atrocities committed at that time.. but it is another to peel through so many accounts one by one in detail... It was painful.. but I believe necessary to go through. I did not expect to grow, and crumble, and grow... in the ways I have with this book. Keep your eyes open, and look around you.

This is a book that definitely has its place in history. There need to be accounts of atrocities and racism. There are people trying to erase awareness. I both read and scanned this book. It was too depressing/horrific to read too closely. I particularly appreciate that these actually are, and are presented as newspaper clippings. I just don't believe the statistics on lynchings, I think they were much higher. Yet we must appreciate that as a part of history too.

Painful and enlightening, it takes a certain type of person, with a certain interest in mind to read this book cover to cover. It IS NOT FICTION, it IS NOT A THRILLER, they are clippings of fact for information and awareness.