Love’s Bright Fire
Love’s Bright Fire: A Friendship, A Lynching, A Daughter’s Journey to Reveal The Truth
Part travel journal, part memoir, part historical investigation, all in service to revealing the struggle, courage and losses of the men we loved and who suffered through the White Redemption period of early 20th century Southern life.
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Both the practice and intimidation of violence and the inadequate functioning of justice in the region are expressions of the same spirit of relative lawlessness; both tolerated and upheld by the same public opinion. Both are rooted in this strange Southern Combination of conservatism and illegality. Both are expression on the part of the Southern public of its dissatisfaction with formal laws, it's disregard for orderly government.
