Those Who Saw the Sun: African American Oral Histories from the Jim Crow South

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A stunning collection of oral histories from Black elders who grew up in the Jim Crow South

The past is not past. We may think something ancient history, or something that doesn’t affect our present day, but we would be wrong.

Those Who Saw the Sun is a collection of oral histories told by Black people who grew up in the South during the time of Jim Crow. Jaha Nailah Avery is a lawyer, scholar, and report...