Title: A Southern Confession
Review: Lillian Smith's book is amazing considering that it was written in 1947 well before the Civil Rights era and before African American voices were heard by the white community. She starts by telling us the problems children had in separating what they were taught at home and at church with the reality of segregation in which all black people were considered inferior to them. God created us equal but not too equal. I am a Californian who has lived in the South for 16 years; I have been trying all that time to understand the Southern perspective and have found this book to be a real help in understanding a part of our country who. we know, suffered in a way the North never suffered after the Civil War and into the 20th Century,but still could never admit they were wrong about the war or that slavery and later segregation was evil.
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