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Tag Archives: Alabama
An UnderratedRead Revisited: They Got Daddy: One Family’s Reckoning with Racism and Faith: Sharon Tubbs
(Reviewed by JD Jung) “This story would reveal parts of who I am, as a Black woman in America, by discovering who my grandfather was.” This was not her original intention though. She wanted to learn more about her grandfather’s … Continue reading
Posted in Revisited
Tagged African American history, Alabama, race relations, racism, social justice
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They Got Daddy: One Family’s Reckoning with Racism and Faith – Sharon Tubbs
(Reviewed by JD Jung) “This story would reveal parts of who I am, as a Black woman in America, by discovering who my grandfather was.” This was not her original intention though. She wanted to learn more about her grandfather’s … Continue reading
Posted in Bios and Memoirs, History, Non-fiction, Social Justice
Tagged African American history, Alabama, memoirs, race relations, racism
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The Parlor Girl’s Guide – Steve McCondichie
(Reviewed by JD Jung) “They probably hauled him to the city lockup for the weekend. He ain’t the first busted-ass sharecropper in Scots Station to get run on a rail for stealing and owing money.” November 1926, Central Alabama – … Continue reading
Posted in Historical Fiction
Tagged Alabama, American South, farming, jazz age, Ty Cobb
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