The Blood of Emmett Till by Timothy Tyson "How do you give a crash course in hatred to a boy who has only known love?" -- Mamie Till, mother of Emmett Till Emmett Till. The boy whose lynching galvanized a global movement. Right now, the media seems to be afire with one of the revelations of this...
Americans love their sanitized, After-School Special version of the civil rights movement, in which we've progressed inevitably from the bad old days of slavery to the modern day where racism is just the occasional gaffe that gets a news commentator fired or a few hicks wearing sheets way off in the...
Really good memoir. I'll add more later, but in the meantime, here's a interesting piece of information:In 1662, the Virginia legislature passed a law that read, "Children got by an Englishman upon a Negro woman shall be bond or free according to the condition of the mother." Seems otherwise innocu...
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