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Book Review: The Wrong Side of Murder Creek: A White Southerner in the Freedom Movement
Jo Freeman reviews The Wrong Side of Murder Creek: A White Southerner in the Freedom Movement:
To those of us who were civil rights activists in the 1960s, Bob
Zellner and Constance Curry were legends in their own time. Not big
legends like Stokely Ca… more »
Six years since the invasion of Iraq and still protesting
Jo Freeman writes,
"What began with a bang is ending with a whimper. But the groups that
organized the Iraq invasion protests aren’t going out of business;
they're expanding their agenda." more »
Book Review: Women Making America
Jo Freeman reviews Women Making America,
covering women’s history from the Revolution to the present day. Chock
full of colorful images, it swoops high and low, sometimes mapping the
forest and sometimes looking at a tree. more »
Sightings, Victory Gardens
Tam Gray writes: "Tennis Ball lettuce, Moon and Stars watermelon and Telephone peas in
1943; Ernest's garden in Garden City, LI; the First Lady's kale,
shallots and fennel and a culinary historian's theory, ""The more
democratic our Pre… more »
