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Denmark, South Carolina

This rural area of a southern state, beset with poverty, shaped the author's childhood and values.

Church Fish Fries

These events are important avenues for political candidates in the South to get to know constituents and attempt to shore up support in campaign seasons.

Emmett Till

This person's brutal lynching death at a very young age in 1955 was a major factor in accelerating the U.S. civil rights movement. The author's father was galvanized to join the movement in an active capacity by this person's death.

Orangeburg

This town in South Carolina was the site of a protest and shooting deaths of three protesters in 1968, an event that shadows and haunts the author throughout the author's life because the author's father was shot there, but survived.

Jiving

This phrase refers to the verbal sparring, joking, and teasing the author claims that Black men often engage...

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