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Blog: Gretchen Craig Topics:fiction, writers, novels
Tag Archives: Civil Rights
Reconstruction, so much better and so much worse than I knew.
To honor Black History Month: I have now read two books about reconstruction (A Short History of Reconstruction by Eric Foner, and The Great New Orleans Kidnapping Case: Race, Law, and Justice in the Reconstruction Era, by Michael A. Ross), … Continue reading
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Tagged Black History Month, blacks and police, Civil Rights, Ferguson, freed slaves, racism, Reconstruction
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A White Woman Writing Black History
A reader has asked me by what lights should I, a white woman, be writing about Afro-Americans, slavery in particular. Once I get all of the flip answers out of my system, what it comes down to is that people … Continue reading
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Tagged African-American, Black History, Civil Rights, empathy, Historical Fiction, injustice, Martin Luther King Jr., slavery, writers
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