The Vote Collectors by Michael Graff -- Read -- Imperial Library of Trantor

Index

Cover Page The Vote Collectors Copyright Page Contents Prologue: Morning in Mother County December 2018 Part I: Thank God for Bladen

1: The Missing Piece April 6, 2017 2: The Ballad of the Flim-Flam Man October 1995 3: A Girl, Born into the Jim Crow South April 1936 4: The Black Sheriff 2010 5: The Backlash 2014 6: The Storm October 2016 7: The Hearing That Went Haywire December 3, 2016 8: The Vampire Beast April 7, 2017 9: The Boss Man February 1, 2018 10: Like the Rapture August 2018 11: Election Night November 6, 2018

Part II: And So Do We

12: Broken Men April 10, 1865 13: The Spaulding Dynasty March 1868 14: The Black Congressman from Bladen 1870–1896 15: Sacred Texts July 1898 16: The Editorial That Shook the Old North State August 1898 17: The Rigged Election and the Massacre November 10, 1898 18: The Last Black Congressman March 4, 1901 19: The Carnival Worker September 13, 1953 20: The Firebombing at Fowler Simmons April 27, 1971 21: The Gospel Song at the KKK Rally December 18, 1994 22: Say His Name: Lennon Lacy August 29, 2014

Part III: The Garden

23: The Thanksgiving Surprise November 7, 2018 24: The Bad Draw November 30, 2018 25: The White Lady December 2018 26: The NAACP at First Baptist Church December 18, 2018 27: Time Check 6:30 P.M. on a February Night 28: The Hearing’s Opening Lies February 18, 2019 29: The Son’s Sword February 20, 2019 30: The Pastor’s Call for a New Election February 21, 2019 31: A Glass of Tea February 27, 2019 32: The Chilling Chant July 17, 2019 33: The Garden of Good and Evil August 2019 34: Peach Ice Cream September 9, 2019 35: The Last Lie September 10, 2019

Epilogue: Letter from North Carolina Early 2021 Acknowledgments A Note on Sources Selected Bibliography Index