"The Stained Glass Window: A Family History as the American Story," author David Levering Lewis
Автор: American Ancestors
Загружено: 2025-02-28
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Inspired by a stained-glass window dedicated to his grandmother in the Atlanta church where his family had prayed for generations, American historian David Levering Lewis vowed to excavate the past and tell his family’s story. Now, the National Humanities Medal recipient and two-time recipient of the Pulitzer Prize reckons with his legacy in full.
David Levering Lewis’s lineage led him to two white slaveholding families in Georgia, to a free persons of color slaveholding family in South Carolina and then to an up-from-slavery black family in Georgia. His father introduced him to W.E.B. Du Bois and the good work of Thurgood Marshall, though which he gained a deeper knowledge of America’s racial past. In The Stained Glass Window, Levering Lewis reckons with his legacy, facing his ancestors and all that was lost, all the doors that were closed to them. His chronicle of the antebellum project and the subsequent era of marginalization and resistance transforms our understanding. With the acclaimed historian Professor Kendra T. Field, he will bring to life this “epic” memoir, “rich in family lore and historical fact...a thoughtful addition to the literature of Black life in the American South.” (Kirkus Reviews). Don’t miss their conversation.
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