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Article: Where school was out.(Prince Edward )(Book Review)
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- The New Leader
- Article date:
- May 1, 2004
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Prince Edward By Dennis McFarland Holt. 354 pp. $25.00.
JUST AS the Vietnam years seem nearly as distant as the Civil War to many young people, the days when Jim Crow mutilated the lives of black Southerners are virtually unimaginable to them. That, of course, is something to celebrate, but there are losses whenever such stories fade, whether they recount the horrors, the heroism or the ordinary behavior falling between.
Time and again I find myself recommending James Silver's Mississippi: The Closed Society, about the integration of Ole Miss, to students who have trouble believing that it was once dangerous for white folks to entertain black friends ...