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    3038 Hennepin Ave Minneapolis, MN
    612-822-4611

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Honeysuckle: Poems and Stories from a Black Southerner

Honeysuckle: Poems and Stories from a Black Southerner

Anderson, Kimberly
Brown, Kimberly
Brown, Tifara

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ISBN13: 9798655470972
Publisher: Independently Published
Published: Jun 19 2020
Pages: 62
Weight: 0.23
Height: 0.15 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
Lacoochee Negro, Father 11 Children, Killed By Train

That is how the Dade City Banner, and the white world, buried Wallace Jordan away.Honeysuckle: Poems and Stories from a Black Southerner is a poetic tribute to an excruciating past of racial violence in the Deep South, one woman's attempt to honor her ancestor's story of a wrongful death and audacious resilience. These works labor to shine light on the reality of living Black in America in hopes of inspiring action and a transformation in all who read them.

Wallace Jordan was a Black log hooker and grocery delivery man living with his family of 12 in northern Florida, in the heat of Jim Crow. He was accused of being fresh with his boss's wife by looking at her, and was beaten to death, his mutilated body thrown on the railroad tracks and his story swept away with the passing train that was said to have killed him. His family moved away shortly after in an attempt to preserve their own lives and possibly begin again.

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