Dear Dad, It’s African American History Month.

Race in Deep South 1950s, o-GR-900

Dear Dad,
It’s African American History Month, and I’ve been thinking about our family history in the Deep South during the 1950s. We moved there from Southern California in the early 1950s. Total culture shock for me. I wonder what it was like for you.

I never knew you as anything but my father the ordained clergyman. Read the rest of this entry »