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Jessica Ingram: On the Importance of Historical Markers as a Community Acknowledgment of History

Posted by Anna Faison on 12 February 2020, 11:05 am

Today we welcome a guest post from Jessica Ingram, author of Road Through Midnight: A Civil Rights Memorial, available now from UNC Press. At first glance, Jessica Ingram’s landscape photographs could have been made nearly anywhere in the American South: a fenced-in backyard, a dirt road lined by overgrowth, a field grooved with muddy tire prints.… Continue Reading Jessica Ingram: On the Importance of Historical Markers as a Community Acknowledgment of History

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Filed under African American Studies, American Studies, Documentary Studies, Photography, Southern Studies, UNC Press Authors, UNC Press News | Tagged alabama, American South, Andrew Goodman, Armstrong Tire and Rubber, Civil Rights, Denise Jackson Ford, Ferriday, freedom summer, George Metcalf, historical marker, James Chaney, Jessica Ingram, Klan, landscape, louisiana, Michael Schwerner, Mississippi, Montgomery, NAACP, Natchez, Neshoba County, Philadelphia MS, photographs, racist violence, Road Through Midnight, Silver Dollar Group, Stanley Dearman, Wharlest Jackson

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