Chapter 16
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The Ghost Hunter

Investigative reporter Jerry Mitchell cracks cold cases from the civil rights movement

…challenges. At the beginning, I didn’t have a transcript of the 1967 federal trial, and even when I did, I didn’t know if any of the witnesses were still alive…

The Challenge of Antiracism

Historian Ibram X. Kendi confronts our racist culture — and looks inward

allows ideas to persist about the superiority of one racial group over another. He writes: “One either allows racial inequalities to persevere, as a racist, or confronts racial inequalities, as…

Revisiting the Movement

Robert Penn Warren’s 1964 interviews with civil-rights activists get an updated look

…critical, turning-point year in American history. A book like Free All Along is necessary because it sharpens the reader’s historical consciousness. Immerse yourself in it. Read it from beginning to…

False Impressions and True Selves

Michael Knight’s At Briarwood School for Girls is haunted—and haunting

…the past: “If individual experience molds us into who we are as human beings, then surely community experience—national experience—defines us too,” observes the Briarwood history teacher. “No doubt all history…

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