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Karen Branan

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in Columbus, GA, The United States

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History, Memoir

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Martin Luther King, Lillian Smith, Carl Jung

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Graduated from Columbus (Ga.) High - 1959
Graduated from U. of Ga. - 1962
Taught English at Forest Park (Ga.) High School and Marietta (Ga.) High School
Writer for Ga. Dept. of Education
Director, The Learning Center, Ft. Wayne, IN
Instructor - U. of Mn. Experimental College
Freelance Writer - Ms., Mother Jones, Life, Ladies Home Journal, Christian Science Monitor, Learning, Scholastic Teacher, Education Today, Woman's Day, Good Housekeeping. Documentary producer: PBS, CBC, BBC, CBS.
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Average rating: 3.63 · 288 ratings · 60 reviews · 2 distinct works • Similar authors

	The Family Tree: A Lynching in Georgia, a Legacy of Secrets, and My Search for the Truth 3.53 avg rating — 253 ratings — published 2016 — 13 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Slavery's Descendants: Shared Legacies of Race and Reconciliation by Jill Strauss (Introduction), Shannon Lanier (Contributor), A.B. Westrick (Goodreads Author) (Contributor) 4.31 avg rating — 35 ratings — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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Tao Te Ching

by Lao Tzu

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The Gullah Geechee Saga: Through African Eyes

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Loving: Interracial Intimacy in America and the Threat to White Supremacy

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“the law take its course,” as my great-grandfather had done at the fork of the roads one day earlier, they were understood to be promising death under a legal guise.”
― Karen Branan, The Family Tree: A Lynching in Georgia, a Legacy of Secrets, and My Search for the Truth

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“Every negro lynched is called a Big Burly Black Brute,” he, or possibly a staffer, wrote in the Record, “when in fact many of those who have been dealt with had white men for their fathers and were not only not black and burly, but were sufficiently attractive for white girls of culture and refinement to fall in love with them, as is very well known to all.”
― Karen Branan, The Family Tree: A Lynching in Georgia, a Legacy of Secrets, and My Search for the Truth

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“Newly freed black men across the South were taking umbrage at the fact that, while they were falsely accused of raping white women, white men granted themselves total immunity in the matter of black women. Few”
― Karen Branan, The Family Tree: A Lynching in Georgia, a Legacy of Secrets, and My Search for the Truth

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