Includes reading group guide/Questions & topics for discussion.
Contents:
Author's note -- Chapter one -- Chapter two -- Chapter three -- Afterword -- Warren's sketchbook -- Reading group guide/questions & topics for discussion.
Summary:
The early 20th century: an era when lynchings were commonplace throughout the American South. To most of the press, this epidemic of racial murder wasnt even news. But a few courageous reporters from the North risked their lives to expose these atrocities. They were light-skinned African-American men who could pass for white. They called this dangerous assignment going incognegro. Zane Pinchback, a reporter for the New York-based New Holland Herald, escapes with his live after his latest incognegro story goes bad. But when he returns to the sanctuary of Harlem, hes sent on a new storythe arrest of his own bother, charged with the brutal murder of a white woman in Mississippi.
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