Presents a dramatization of the predominately African-American town of Rosewood, Florida, that was burned to the ground and many of its residents murdered by a white racist mob in 1923.
A fifteen-year-old boy becomes the object of a media frenzy and his small Texas town's thirst for vengeance when his only friend shoots sixteen classmates and commits suicide.
mass killing and genocide in the twentieth century
Valentino, Benjamin A.
2004
The author maintains that a greater threat of genocide originates from smaller groups of powerful leaders and focuses on three types of mass killings in the twentieth century: Communist killings, ethnic genocides, and counter-guerrilla campaigns.
Amabelle, a Haitian woman who has grown up as a servant in the home of Dominicans, falls in love with Sebastien, an itinerant sugarcane cutter, and together they try to weather the storms of persecution against their people.
CIA operative Tommy Carmellini is forced to run for his life when he is sent to post guard duty at a West Virginia safehouse where a KGB defector is being debriefed, and arrives to find the place under attack by American commandos.
