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Moving on
Ebony, April, 2005
African-American history is often the story of migrations, both forced and voluntary, IN MOTION: THE AFRICAN-AMERICAN MIGRATION EXPERIENCE, (National Geographic Books, $35), compiled and edited by Howard Dodson, director of the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture of the New York Public Library, and Sylviane Diouf, researcher at the Schomburg Center, traces these migrations within and out of the United States and documents how the migrations have shaped the rich African American culture and the entire country. This richly illustrated book--featuring more than 8,000 illustrations--is a companion to an extraordinary Web site of the same name, curated by the Schomburg Center. The site, www.schomburgcenter.org, presents and interprets the 13 African-American migrations, from the 16th through the 21st centuries, described in the book. An educational component offers materials for teachers.
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Another and an extremely personal view of the Black experience in this country is the memoir DEAR SENATOR: A MEMOIR BY THE DAUGHTER OF STROM THURMOND by Essie Mae Washington-Williams and William Stadiem (ReganBooks, $24.95). In telling her story, Essie Mae Washington-Williams breaks nearly eight decades of silence as she writes of her complicated relationship with her father, the late Senator Strom Thurmond, who was once the nation's leading voice for segregation. The author writes candidly of the convoluted relationship she shared with Thurmond, but adding that she believes her life began at age 78, in 2003, when she confirmed that she was the long-rumored Black daughter of the man who as the presidential nominee of the "Dixiecrat" States' Rights Party vowed to keep Blacks out of the institutions of White Southern life. "In a way, my life began at 78, at least my life as who I really was, without the subterfuges of the previous 65 years," she writes.
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