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Review
Searching for the New Mind of the South
The New Mind of the SouthBy Tracy ThompsonSimon & Schuster, 2013 W hen the journalist W.J. Cash set out to describe the American South, back …
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Excerpt
The Myth of the Black Church
My earliest ideas about African American religion and political struggle come from my first public memories as a child of the South of the late 1950s and 1960s.
By Barbara Dianne Savage