historic things
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Not your average freedom fighter
I thought it would be fitting, on the 39th anniversary of the assassination of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., to include a photograph (thanks Getty Images) of this lady, Annie Cooper.Annie Cooper made the news in Selma in the 1960s for wrestling a white policeman to the ground after he harassed her while she waited… Read more
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Red River/Lalita Tademy
When I heard that Lalita Tademy had released a new book, Red River, I was really excited for a couple of reasons. The first one was that I had read Cane River, the chronicle of the times of her mother’s ancestors. The second was that I was very familiar with the area of Louisiana in… Read more
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The Known World/Edward P. Jones
The Known World by Edward P. Jones could be best summarized by the following passage. Winifred had meant no bad thing by the words. With what little money she had, she hired a printer-an enlightened white immigrant from Savannah, Georgia,-to make up the posters and put them up all about Philadelphia, “where any eye could… Read more
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