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Jason Jeffries
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In 1936, Lawrence Dennis wrote a book titled The Coming American Fascism.
“And the Nation echoed and enforced this self-criticism, saying: Be content to be servants, and nothing more; what need of higher culture for half-men? Away with the black man's ballot, by force or fraud,—and behold the suicide of a race!”
― The Souls of Black Folk
― The Souls of Black Folk
“no approximately correct history of civilization can ever be written which does not throw out in bold relief, as one of the great landmarks of political and social progress, the organization and administration of the Freedmen's Bureau.”
― The Souls of Black Folk
― The Souls of Black Folk
“Disagreement is not oppression. Argument is not assault. Words – even provocative or repugnant ones – are not violence. The answer to speech we do not like is more speech.”
― The Madness of Crowds: Gender, Race and Identity
― The Madness of Crowds: Gender, Race and Identity
“Black farmers like Henry Shepherd and his family threatened, “by their example, the whole system of servitude and forced labor which is the base of the local economy,” McCarthy wrote.”
― Devil in the Grove: Thurgood Marshall, the Groveland Boys, and the Dawn of a New America
― Devil in the Grove: Thurgood Marshall, the Groveland Boys, and the Dawn of a New America
“Inexplicably to many whites, blacks continued to express dissatisfaction.”
― This Nonviolent Stuff'll Get You Killed: How Guns Made the Civil Rights Movement Possible
― This Nonviolent Stuff'll Get You Killed: How Guns Made the Civil Rights Movement Possible
Jason’s 2025 Year in Books
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