They Got Daddy (eBook)

One Family's Reckoning with Racism and Faith

Sharon Tubbs (Autor)

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2023
162 Seiten
Quarry Books (Verlag)
978-0-253-06447-9 (ISBN)

Infos

Author's family moved out of the Jim Crow South after her grandfather was nearly killed by white supremacists in Alabama, an event that left an indelible mark on the family.

Timely topic and compellingly rendered to show the generational effects of racism for one Black family

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An unforgettable journey through racism and faith across the generations.

January 15, 1959—a day that changed one family forever. White supremacists kidnapped and severely beat rural Alabama preacher Israel Page, nearly killing him because he had sued a White sheriff's deputy for injuries suffered in a car crash. After "they" "got Daddy," Israel Page's children began leaving the Jim Crow South, the event leaving an indelible mark on the family and its future. Decades later, the events of that day fueled journalist Sharon Tubbs's epic quest to learn who had "gotten" her mother's daddy and why.

They Got Daddy follows Tubbs on her moving journey from Fort Wayne, Indiana, to the back roads and rural churches of Alabama. A powerful revelation of the sustaining and redemptive power of faith and unflinching testimony to the deeply embedded effects of racism across the generations, it demonstrates how the search for the truth can offer a chance at true healing.

Autor

Sharon Tubbs began her professional career as a newspaper reporter and editor. In a career that spanned seventeen years, she worked briefly for the Philadelphia Inquirer then for the Tampa Bay Times. As a journalist, she covered various beats that included small-town government, local crime, and national religious issues. Today, Sharon Tubbs is a writer, inspirational speaker, and the director of a nonprofit organization that empowers under-resourced residents in Fort Wayne, Indiana, to live healthier lives.

Inhalt

Introduction
1. Gone, Just Gone
2. History Breathes Again
3. Drilling Deep
4. Migrating to a New Life
5. Getting Religion
6. A Different Kind of Shout
7. Policing Moonshine and Murder
8. A Country Lawyer
9. Good Times Meets the Brady Bunch
10. A Black Man's Capital Crime
11. He Was That
12. Fake Preachers and Winding Roads
13. The Klan and Me
14. Faith vs. Fear
15. Turning Mess into Ministry
16. Vengeance Is His
Notes

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 3.1.2023
• Zusatzinfo: 15 color photos, 3 b&w photos, 1 map
• Verlagsort: Bloomington
• Sprache: englisch
• Maße: 150 x 150 mm
• Themenwelt: Literatur ► Biografien / Erfahrungsberichte
• Themenwelt: Kinder- / Jugendbuch ► Sachbücher ► Religion / Philosophie / Psychologie
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Ethnologie
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie
• Schlagworte: African American • Alabama • Black • Indiana • Memoir • South
• ISBN-10: 0-253-06447-3 / 0253064473
• ISBN-13: 978-0-253-06447-9 / 9780253064479