Song of Solomon by Toni Morrison.

 

The Seven Days is a fraternal society of Black men. Their purpose is to respond with militancy when a Black person is murdered by a white person and the crime goes unpunished.

 

“If the Negro was hanged, they hang; if a Negro was burnt, they burn; raped and murdered, they rape and murdered... It's about trying to make a world where one day white people will think before they lynch”