In which I recount growing up in segregated Tennessee and recount the books that helped me cope.
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My Life in Lit – Segregation
Posted in Uncategorized Also tagged Harper Lee, Huckleberry Finn, integration, Mark Twain, May Justus, racism, segregation, To Kill a Mockingbird Comments closed
My Town’s Desegregation Battles
Yesterday Sewanee, Tennessee had a ceremony honoring those families, including my own, involved in a historic civil rights suit 50 years ago.