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Books January 2013

[…] school and joined the army, and discusses his struggle with Jim Crow laws while stationed in the U.S. South. His […]

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Healing Resistance: A Radically Different Response to Harm

[…] Black people by police without knowing the legacy of slavery, Jim Crow, and mass incarceration. In dealing with a conflict, […]

Reviewed by Patience A. Schenck

Dana Louise Raphael

[…] Boone Jacobson. She is survived by three children, Brett Raphael, Seth Jacobson (Cindy Short), and Jessa Murnin (Jim); and six grandchildren.

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Marjorie Elkinton James Leavitt

[…] marriage. Marge is survived by four children, Karl Leavitt, Paul Leavitt, Jim Leavitt, Sandra Leavitt Geeslin; six grandchildren; and nine great-grandchildren.

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FGC Services for Orienting New Friends

[…] new Friends. Among them are Listening to the Light by Jim Pym, an excellent introductory text; Silence and Speech: For […]

Lucy Duncan

Opening the Road: Victor Hugo Green and His Green Book

[…] and difficulties faced by African Americans in the days of Jim Crow and legal segregation; however, this story focuses on […]

Reviewed by Karen Heidenreich

The Fiery Forge of Polarization

[…] Ambassador of Conscience Award, Washington, D.C., September 2019. Photo © Jim Ross. Quakers Grew in Polarized Times. Accepting an evidence-based […]

George Lakey

Finding Hope

[…] here than the influences of our media and film industries. Jim Wallis, editor of Sojourners magazine, addressed the annual sessions […]

Susan Corson-Finnerty

When You Know Better, You Do Better

[…] Being from a Southern family, the legacies of slavery and Jim Crow were significant in making me who I am […]

Vanessa Van Wagner

A Quaker Argument against Gun Control

[…] treats the possession and use of marijuana. In The New Jim Crow, author Michelle Alexander documents that the use of […]

Matthew Van Meter