Buried in the Bitter Waters: The Hidden History of Racial Cleansing in America

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Journalist Elliot Jaspen spent five years researching places like Corbin. He found white people violently expelled virtually all the black people in their communities. The counties are typically rural along the Mason-Dixon line. In a sense, it's become America's family secret.

In 1919, a white mob forced the entire black population of Corbin, Kentucky, to leave, at gunpoint. It was one of many racial expulsions in the United States. What happened, and how such racial cleansings became “America’s family secret.”

The history of Corbin as presented by the Corbin city government, with no mention of the 1919 racial expulsion.

Elliot Jaspin’s book, Buried in the Bitter Waters: The Hidden History of Racial Cleansings in America