Read as part of CBR15Bingo: history-banned. Although this book hasn’t been banned (yet), it goes into great length on the oral testimonies of the victims and survivors of racial terror during Reconstruction. The narratives of slaves and post-emancipation Black persons are being banned across the country in other media. I can’t remember who tweeted it but someone once wrote a hypothesis that anti-Semitism is on the rise again because so many Holocaust survivors are dying. Reading that hit me like a thunderbolt because it made […]
Lest We Forget
I Saw Death Coming: A History of Terror and Survival in the War Against Reconstruction by Kidada E. Williams