The Civil War Along Tennessee’s Cumberland Plateau
Aaron Astor
Aaron Astor
Kristen Green’s new memoir tells the shameful story of Prince Edward County’s response to integration
…ruled in its “Brown II” decision that state and local governments could in effect set their own pace for desegregation. When the circuit court’s ruling came down in 1959, local…
In Fresh Water from Old Wells, Cindy Henry McMahon confronts her family’s tumultuous path toward social justice
…variety of letters and official records, McMahon presents a detailed account of one historical moment when conviction successfully met strategy in the fight for social progress. But as McMahon learns…
The graphic trilogy March, Congressman John Lewis’s memoir of the American civil-rights movement, continues with a focus on Nashville’s Freedom Riders
…traditional memoir. Powell captures Lewis’s personal recollections through subtle visual cues: no two comic panels are drawn the same size, or placed in the regular alignment common to traditional comic…