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Transcript: Scott Simon Reads Letters from Listeners
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- NPR Weekend Edition - Saturday
- Article date:
- June 18, 1994
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SCOTT SIMON, Host: Time now for your letters. A number of listeners
wrote to compliment Eileen LaBlanque's [sp] piece on the uprising
in Wilmington, North Carolina, that displaced a black led government
a century ago, and that's city reaction to a fictionalized account
of the incident today.
Several also wrote to remind us, however, that Cape Fear Rising is
not the first novel to discuss this incident. The Marrow of Tradition,
by Charles Chestnut who was an African-American author at the turn
of the century, was first a new history of the incident. We Have
Taken a City, by H. Leon Prather was published this year by the Farley
Dickenson University Press.
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