Jerry Mitchell Book Recommendations & Book Mentions

Jerry Mitchell

Happy Birthday, Alice Walker! Author turned down scholarship to Paris to join #CivilRights Movement in Mississippi, where she interviewed sharecroppers, who like her parents, had been thrown off the land. Won @PulitzerPrizes for "The Color Purple." https://t.co/zEPQec5fFR

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#OnThisDay 1977, Alex Haley was awarded a special @PulitzerPrizes for “Roots,” which was also adapted for TV. 130M Americans watched the epic mini-series, which meant that 85% of US households watched the Emmy-winning program. https://t.co/Iw0rxFen4z https://t.co/Ni9V8UXd3O

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@viatrixing "Angela's Ashes" by Frank McCourt "Invisible Man" by Ralph Ellison "Slouching Towards Bethlehem" by Joan Didion "Pilgrim at Tinker Creek" by Annie Dillard and mine ... "Race Against Time"

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#RaceAgainstTime (Photo shows sons of Vernon Dahmer, who died defending his family from KKK firebombing. Photo by Chris McNair, whose daughter, Denise, was killed in the Birmingham church bombing that killed 4 girls. Her sister, Lisa, has a new book, "Dear Denise.") https://t.co/seT6v4sqw1

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#OnThisDay in 1903: In “The Souls of Black Folk,” W.E.B. Du Bois called for active resistance to racist policies: “We have no right to sit silently by while the inevitable seeds are sown for a harvest of disaster to our children, black and white.” https://t.co/DF6zlfXUI2 https://t.co/OXc3hEbF2f

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#OnThisDay in 1959: A Raisin in the Sun, 1st Broadway play written by a Black woman, debuted. Lorraine Hansberry drew inspiration for her play from a Langston Hughes’ poem: “What happens to a dream deferred? Does it dry up like a raisin in the sun?” https://t.co/zOeExgROJl https://t.co/eXzFUuNgKU

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#OnThisDay 1954, Benjamin O. Davis Jr. became 1st Black general in @USAirForce. Commanded Tuskegee Airmen & received Distinguished Flying Cross. Helped organize desegregation of Air Force & commanded a fighter wing in Korean War. #ThursdayVibes https://t.co/tspjWADtXq https://t.co/1KCqMNgO2U

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#OnThisDay 1940, Benjamin O. Davis Sr. became the 1st Black American promoted to Brigadier General in @USArmy. Six days after he retired in 1948, #POTUS Truman abolished racial discrimination in the armed forces. #OTD #TDIH https://t.co/MeWqDOj0wB https://t.co/A04cwPgFEK

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#OnThisDay in 1903: In “The Souls of Black Folk,” W.E.B. Du Bois called for active resistance to racist policies: “We have no right to sit silently by while the inevitable seeds are sown for a harvest of disaster to our children, black and white.” https://t.co/DF6zlfXUI2 https://t.co/OXc3hEbF2f

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#OTD 1968, Shirley Chisholm became 1st Black woman elected to Congress, winning with the slogan, “Unbought and Unbossed.” In 1972, she made history by becoming the first Black woman to run for a major party for president. https://t.co/vO8N2047Ft https://t.co/6e8D92aNC1