EVERYONE should read this book! And, since the U.S. Citizenship Exam strategically excludes ALL of our history, I advocate the history chronicled, In THIS book, be INCLUDED and REQUIRED for passing. --There is an AMAZING TIME LINE included in this book, by the way, that could STAND ALONE as a condensed history lesson, if you never read anything else!
Of course, no exam whatsoever is being required THESE days, but if there were only three books that I think should be REQUIRED reading for EVERYONE, to more fully tell the American Story, I would chose:
"The Peculiar Institution", by Kenneth Stampp, which lays out the institution of American Slavery...
THIS book, "Ida B. Wells", by her Great Grandaughter, Michelle Duster, which drawn, in part, from the actual journals of Ida B. Wells, brings to life the grueling reality of the "quasi" slave systems, and "domestic terrorism" during "Reconstruction"....
And Coretta Scott King's Autobiography, "Coretta: My Life My Love, My Legacy". If you want the REAL DEAL inside info on just HOW MUCH sacrifice was made and how much terrorism was endured to secure these "inalienable rights" during that decade long REVOLUTION, we politely call, "The Civil Rights Movement"... THIS is your book.
THREE BOOKS that most succinctly elucidate each of the three eras of our existence after arriving on these shores.
I would also recommend a good book on The Middle Passage. And Zora Neale Hurston, an Anthropologist by training, wrote a very interesting and only recently published book, "Barracoon", that shed light on the slave trade from the African shores. "Barracoon" drew from interviews with a surviving slave.
But, for now, I'm going to get back to this audio book of Ida B. Wells. It's also narrated by Michelle, by the way!
Hey Michelle! Thank you so much for stepping up so fiercely to preserve your Great Grandmother's legacy for ALL of us!
Peace & Power
❤✊
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