calendar.eji.org/racial-injustice/apr/23 John Lewis remarked in his magnificent book, Across That Bridge, that when, later in life, he would talk to youngsters of whatever skin tone, the kids were often incredulous that conditions were "that bad" in the south. William Moore was one of hundreds of people who died to change America. John Lewis marveled at… Continue reading Murder in Alabama and Mississippi Was Common
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What the World Needs, Mr. Agee
Is a version of Let Us Now Praise Famous Men that uses the real names of the people. Let us face it. Most people have come to know these famous people through the photographs of Walker Evans. True, in the splendid book, graced with your splendid, sometimes transcendent words, the Evans photographs bear no captions.… Continue reading What the World Needs, Mr. Agee
Einhard
Maybe I should have called my blog Waiting for Einhard "Be this as it may, I see no reason why I should refrain from entering upon a task of this kind, since no man can write with more accuracy than I of events that took place about me, and of facts concerning which I had… Continue reading Einhard
This is all I have to say
"I see that the Indian fires are going out. Soon they will be cold. New fires are lighting in the West for us, they say, and we will go there. I do not believe our Great Father means to harm his red children, but that he wishes us well. We leave behind our good will… Continue reading This is all I have to say
Red Square
This weekend we traveled to Tyronza, Arkansas for a repeat visit to the Southern Tenant Farmers Union Museum. The Union was organized in Tyronza in 1934 by what on the surface would seem an odd couple in the deep south: Clay East who operated a gas station and H.L. Mitchell, owner of a dry cleaning… Continue reading Red Square
Waiting For Charlemagne 