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Walking Home Together.(workshops on racism)

By Neumann, Yeshi Sherover
Publication: ReVision
Date: Tuesday, June 22 1999

The author describes her experience with racism and participation in the 1960s civil rights movement. Experiences in Selma, AL, New York City, and the hidden racism that is part of being a European American are recounted.

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At the top of a cramped staircase on the third floor of the First Baptist Church in Framingham, Massachusetts, there is a tiny room with a narrow wooden bench. Next to the bench is a square stool where an overseer used to sit. In 1849, the church elders built walls to hide the sight o

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