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Category: Civil Rights

Social protest movement in the American South that saw its greatest action during the 1950s, 1960s, and 1970s

Dirty Boots: Backstories

Dirty Boots: Irregular Attempts at Critical Thinking and Border Crossing offers a Deep Southern, Generation X perspective on the culture, politics, and general milieu of the 21st century. Generation-Xers in the South were born into a society that was in flux, but the fact of this and the reasons for it were rarely revealed to us at the time. The oldest among us were born in 1965, the year of the Selma-to-Montgomery March, and that group of children started school in 1970 or 1971, at the time of the Swann… Read more Dirty Boots: Backstories