+ a gathering of old men, bloodline, charles chesnutt, ernest j gaines, frank yerby, harper lee, lillian e smith, now is the time, to kill a mockingbird
What keeps us from acting?
Lillian Smith wrote Now is the Time (1955) in reaction to the Supreme Court’s decision in Brown v. Board of Education. Smith saw the decision as every child’s Magna Carta, and in Now is the Time, she laid out that in order to move forward, we must act. The book, in essence, as Rose Gladney and Lisa Hodgens put it, “crystallized approximately two decades … Read More What keeps us from acting?
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