Summary Of Fire In A Canebrake By Laura Wexler

In “Fire in A Canebrake” by Laura Wexler, The book goes into detail about times when African Americans civil rights were front line news, and on July 25, 1946 four African Americans were lynched. Wexler showed the events of these racial confrontations and told about the political parts. FDR attempted to give the FBI authority in the Civil Rights cases due to the level of elevation and escalation of the movements that were taking place. Wexler proves how racism obscures the truth causing it to be increasingly hard or impossible to relive the racial tension. For the thesis of the story Wexler uses, “The only way for blacks and whites to live together peacefully in America in the twenty-first century is if we begin struggling to understand and acknowledge the extent to which racism has destroyed-and continues to destroy-our ability to tell a common truth.” (Wexler, 267.)
The thesis is a very good example of what the people would remember and it would have been very different during the times when black and whites didn’t agree. Whites during

She proceeded to tell how the people who did the lynching’s didn’t see anything wrong in it due to the time period. Wexler also shows how lack civil rights laws caused all of these injustices. The progress that was being made in the area of civil rights weren’t big enough changes. The so called solution to this problem was the civil rights created by FDR and issued directives to convict people on civil rights abuses. One loophole in civil rights cases it is hard to prove because murder in lynching’s cause it was a state crime and not federal. The lack of government also is seen in the lack of protection for voting blacks. Blacks at the time were still terrified to vote because of fear of white landowners and rural folks who still were not very accepting of the new way things were. It was a fear for their lives as well as their