JIM CROW.CHAPTER 10.OPRAH"S FAVORITE.PG.1

A week of holiday from teaching profession Joe held up his grim and spent most of his time at the library.His boy too was back at home and began debates in earnest.'Some of your books Dad did gather dust over the years.i've heard to clean it up and opened them up again.I had a conversation at the college in which my fellow collegiates debated black freedom in general,narrated their old men stories.I was determined to dig up books again'.'Look at books on the eastern shelf,i divided them into four categories.Abolitionists,Black segregationists,then first generation and second generation reconstructionists and to read black orientation otherwise is to do a disservice to the crusade of black freedom.We have treated the abolitionists as pioneered by white people including their clergy as continuation of reformation that was begun in England.Now look at the 120 books.The Autobiography of malcolm x by malcolm x and alex haley;Their eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neale Hurston;The Colour Purple by Alice Walker.