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Summary: An illuminating journey to racial reconciliation experienced by two Americans--one black and one white.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Pegasus Books Ltd. 2020
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Summary: "In October 1919, a group of black sharecroppers met at a church in an Arkansas village to organize a union. Bullets rained down on the meeting from outside. Many were killed by a white mob, and others were rounded up and arrested. Twelve of the sharecroppers were hastily tried and sentenced to death. Up stepped Scipio Africanus Jones, a self-taught lawyer who'd been born enslaved. Could he...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Calkins Creek, an imprint of Boyds Mills & Kane 2021