Freshwater Road is a historical novel from Denise Nicholas and appeared in 2008. To read my other recent book reviews, see: A Long Petal of the Sea, by Isabel Allende This Tender Land, by William Kent Krueger The Impossible Girl, by Lydia Kang The Da Vinci Code, by Dan Brown The Handmaid’s Tale, by Margaret […]
Tag: nonviolent protest
Robert Moses and the Civil Rights Movement
Most movements have a moral philosophy that motivates participants, and the Civil Rights Movement was no exception. The idea of nonviolence espoused so eloquently by Martin Luther King, Jr., was the ethos underpinning much of the Black struggle of the 1950s and 1960s. Along with King, one of the movement’s best philosophical minds belonged to […]
The Martin Luther King Holiday
For those of us who remember personally or have read and studied about Dr. King’s life and legacy, it is an amazing story of American courage and perseverance. It is fitting, perhaps, that the story of why we have a Martin Luther King holiday dedicated to his memory is also a story worth telling. Congress […]