Grace Elizabeth Hale grew up believing her grandfather, a Mississippi sheriff, had stopped a lynching. Her book, 'In the Pines,' reveals a far darker truth.
It isn’t surprising that Grace Elizabeth Hale chose to write a book about a 1947 lynching. The University of Virginia professor is an award-winning historian who has taught and written about the South and white supremacy for decades, including in the book “Making Whiteness: The Culture of Segregation in the South, 1890-1940.” But her new book is more than just history from the archives. “In The Pines: A Lynching, A Lie, A Reckoning” is a family history of the worst sort.
I wanted to make the point that this erasure of history is foundational to why racism and white supremacy persists. The thing that was most difficult to me was discovering the story — which I didn’t know until I started this research — that the sheriff before stopped a lynching multiple times. That was just heartbreaking because it showed that it could be done. You note that white supremacists saw their extra-legal behavior as serving their community.
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