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Book Review: “The Warmth of Other Suns”

  • By Editor
  • March 26, 2011
  • 3 Comments on Book Review: “The Warmth of Other Suns”

Jim Crow had many faces. One face of Jim Crow was the simple act of many white southerners stepping on a bus. If they didn’t want to sit with people in the front of the bus, they grabbed the colored-only sign and moved it back a row. Blacks in the back would then be forced ever farther to the back, while just one white person sat in the seat for whites only.

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