Cousins : connected through slavery, a Black woman and a White woman discover their past--and each other
Title:
Cousins : connected through slavery, a Black woman and a White woman discover their past--and each other
Author:
Baldwin, Betty Kilby, author.
ISBN:
9781947597426
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Physical Description:
244 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
Contents:
Two women... Two vastly different lives -- A child's point of view -- War is not the answer -- Soldiers without uniforms -- Family secrets -- Hello, cousin! -- Dinner and a movie -- Love, war, and peace -- Aunt Lucia and cousin Tim -- The forever fight -- Sojourner truth in Kalamazoo -- Communing with the ancestors -- Coming to the table -- I am free! -- Complicity in the oppression -- Together on the road -- Q&A with Betty and Phoebe -- Repairing the harms.
Abstract:
"What happens when a White woman, Phoebe, conacts a Black woman, Betty, saying she suspects they are connected through slavery? Open to exploring difficult truths and sharing an admiration for Dr. Martin Luther King, they embark on a path toward reconciliation. Each tells her dramatic story--from Betty's experience desegregating her county's only high school, to Phoebe's eventual question to Betty: "How do I begin to repair the harms?" Piecingly honest. Includes a working reparations project which the two women conceived together"--Back cover
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