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...Year 5 of the Third Decade to Combat Racism and Racial Discrimination...
Music. Flight. Racism. The tales in Ralph Ellison's posthumous collection of short fiction, Flying Home and Other Stories (173 pages; Random House; $23) deal with a variety of issues, but certain concerns pop up repeatedly, variations on compelling melodies. Characters in different stories burst into song; birds and airplanes are seen as metaphors for freedom; and white racism is a fanged, fearsome threat...
...author was still fairly young, and nearly all of them feature drifting, youthful protagonists. A Party down at the Square tells the story of a lynching from the point of view of a white boy. It is a masterpiece, exploring from the inside the clubby, seductive nature of racism. In the memorable title story a young black pilot crashes during a training flight. When an old, poor black man and his son come across the crash site, the pilot feels "cut off from them by age, by understanding, by sensibility, by technology." Later, a white landowner has the pilot taken...
...University of Alabama resulted, on June 11, 1963, in a now-infamous "stand in the school-house door" by then Governor George Wallace; in Atlanta. Before stepping aside to allow Jones and fellow black student James Hood entry, Wallace railed against the federally-ordered integration. Yet despite the pervasive racism that led Hood to transfer, Jones managed to thrive, becoming the school's first African-American graduate in 1965. Jones, who received an apology from Wallace in 1986, later said she "had a responsibility ... to myself, my family and my people...
Crawford speaks honestly, sometimes shockingly so. Unabashedly, he tells of the desperation that leads him and his friends to acts of racism, sexism, and violent theft. The war makes normal 20-somethings no longer “give a fuck about anything except” themselves...