Fire in a Canebrake

In the tradition of Melissa Faye Greene and her award-winning Praying for Sheetrock , extraordinarily talented debut author Laura Wexler tells the story of the Moore's Ford Lynching in Walton County, Georgia in 1946 — the last mass lynching in America, fully explored here for the first time. July 25, 1946. In Walton County, Georgia, a mob of white men commit one of the most heinous racial crimes in America's history: the shotgun murder of four black sharecroppers — two men and two women — at Moo