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William Lazarus
Virginia's Civil Rights Hero Curtis W. Harris Sr.
9781467153249
Regular price $23.99 Save Liquid error (snippets/product-template line 248): Computation results in '-Infinity'%In 1924, the Virginia State Legislature passed the Racial Integrity Act.
The act banned interracial marriage down to “a single drop” of African blood. Just three months later, Curtis W. Harris was born in Dendron, Virginia. Harris was the sixth child of impoverished sharecroppers, living in a desolate outpost of the Commonwealth, but in time he would lead the fight against the Racial Integrity Act and many other racially restrictive laws. Despite being arrested multiple times and beaten, Rev. Harris would help reverse centuries of racial discrimination that began when slaves first arrived in Virginia in 1619.
Author William Paul Lazarus tells the story of Harris’ determination in the face of intense hostility, which took him to the forefront of America’s Civil Rights Movement, arm-in-arm with the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr.
Sheree Scarborough
Southwest Virginia Civil Rights Leader Nannie Berger Hairston
9781467153218
Regular price $24.99 Save Liquid error (snippets/product-template line 248): Computation results in '-Infinity'%Nannie Berger Hairston was a crusader for justice in twentieth-century Virginia.
Nannie Berger Hairston was born in West Virginia in 1921, half a century after the end of the Civil War. She attended segregated schools, graduated, married and started a family. When Nannie’s husband, John, lost his job in the coal mine, the Hairstons moved to Southwest Virginia. It was the height of Jim Crow, and yet, against great odds, she and John became leaders in the community, advocating for civil rights and social justice. Nannie Hairston’s advice was sought by the powerless as well as the powerful. At the time of her death in 2017, she had taken her place as an icon for truth, justice and love.
Local author Sheree Scarborough uses Nannie Hairston’s own words to tell her story.
