Grooms points to the popular book and film “The Help.” “We seem to think that redemption always has a happy ending,” he said. The book draws readers into the lives of Bertrand Johnson, one of the victims who had befriended Lonnie’s father during the war Noland Jacks, an alleged member of the mob and Vernon Venable, the wealthy white businessman.īurdened by feelings of guilt, Lonnie travels the world to find peace and meaning from a night years ago that left a mark on his soul. He tells the story of a young white boy named Lonnie Henson, who witnesses the horrific murder of two black couples in rural Georgia at the end of World War II. Related: Emmet Till: An inhumane crime, a lie revealed and rekindled pain Related: OneRace encouages church to take the lead on racial healing An investigation found that members of the mob likely included the Ku Klux Klan. Grooms, author of “Bombingham” and “Trouble No More,” has written a gripping and disturbing book that is loosely based on the brutal killings of two African-American couples - Roger and Dorothy Malcom, and George and Mae Murray Dorsey - in 1946 at Moore’s Ford Bridge in Walton County. He thinks the nation is haunted by the racial injustices that happened decades ago and continue today when a young woman is run down and killed while protesting at a neo-Nazi rally in Charlottesville, Va., and when nine black members of a Bible study group are murdered by a lone white gunman bent on starting a race war.
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