Contents

• I: "A veil hangs over this town"
• My Marion
• The survivor’s story
• "We never recovered"
• Things I didn’t learn in school
• Marion’s hooded order
• The three P’s
• "They were strangers to me"
• "No likelihood of conviction"
• II: Good history/bad history
• The ironies
• The ancestors
• Underground
• Weaver
• A riot goin’ on
• The auxiliary
• III: "This assemblage of pseudo-Americans"
• In his bulletproof vest
• "The white has fell"
• "Nowhere else to turn"
• God forgives/The brotherhood doesn’t
• IV: "Truth does not bring back the dead but releases them from silence"
• The reconcilers
• Brothers and sisters
• What Aunt Ruth said
• A few bad apples
• The snake under the table
• Telltale
• V: The return of Oatess Archey
• History-maker: the primary/ Spring 1998
• Unity day: the election/Fall 1998
• Poor Marion: the rally/July 1999
• VI: Truth and reconciliation
• Four days in August
• In the picture