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Sharpeipup
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Reading a true story that took place near my former home while listening to the rain outside.

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Nebklvr
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This was rage-inducing, especially as it feels like we are going backwards in terms of “justice for all”. Thurgood Marshall and the other lawyers and reporters who traveled into danger were amazingly brave.

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JenniferP
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This is absolute must-read nonfiction for anyone who wants to deeply experience what it was like to be a Black American in the Jim Crow South of the 1940s/50s. They say you have to hit rock bottom to turn a corner. This book describes a time in America when we hit it. #blackhistorymonth #pulitzer

Liz_M Excellent review here and on LT. 13mo
JenniferP @Liz_M thank you! 13mo
jlhammar Yes, fantastic book! Really upsetting, but what a great read. 13mo
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JenniferP
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It‘s #blackhistorymonth and this was one of my #roll100 books. No brainer to finally get to this Pulitzer Prize winner.

jlhammar This book is so good! Infuriating, but excellent. 14mo
JenniferP @jlhammar I can already tell this will be and uncomfortable and disturbing book to read, but it is important. 14mo
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charl08
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Reads like a thriller. Made me want to stay up past my bedtime.

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A school teacher from Mims, Florida, Harry Tyson Moore.... and some of his NAACP associates organized the Progressive Voters League, which mounted an aggressive campaign to register blacks on the voting rally in Florida. By 1948, he had brought nearly seventy thousand new black Democratic voters in the system...

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SweetP1967
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While this book was gripping and told an important story, there were many elements that were unsatisfying, not due to the writing but rather the facts. The legal outcome was not what I would have hoped, and the fact that a murderer remained in elected office and was never held to account for his crimes was frustrating but a reflection of reality.

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plemmdog
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Starting my February pile for Black History month. This one‘s dense and intense. Growing up in the Carolinas, my family never really considered Florida a part of the South. This book sadly shows it always was, at least in terms of injustice.

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Caryl
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Happy Martin Luther King, Jr. Day, everyone! 💕

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Tomigirl44
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I read this years ago (pre-Litsy) and it‘s haunted my reality ever since. It was horrifying, appalling, eye-opening and riveting. It‘s come up in conversation over the years, and it‘s a large part of why I have no desire to go to Florida (sorry, any Floridians). And it‘s on sale for $1.99 - I think for the whole month of January! I look forward to rereading it.

Jennifer3 I read it a few years ago pre-Litsy and with a friend. Haunted is exactly how I feel. I talk to people about it and try to entice them to read it. 3y
Tomigirl44 @Jennifer3 I‘ve also encouraged people to read it in the course of our conversations; as a northerner (grew up on the Canadian border) the world I read about was so foreign to me it was hard to believe it was part of my US history. 3y
Jennifer3 @Tomigirl44 It is depressing to know how recent it was in our history but then even the last few years anger me as we‘ve made no real progress. There is just a more covert way of continuing the oppression. 3y
Tomigirl44 @Jennifer3 Yes to everything you said! What was so chilling to me is how recent this was in our history as well as blatant crimes with no punishment or consequences. And I‘ve had similar awareness of continuing discrimination especially over the past several years, having thought we‘d made such progress from those days and realizing not so much. 3y
Jennifer3 Yes, so many committed crimes with absolutely no repercussions. I can‘t believe how close Mr. Marshall came to be hanged himself in Tennessee. He wasn‘t a perfect man as none of us our perfect but what an incredibly brave and groundbreaking life he led. 3y
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