Uncovering the Forgotten History of Two Families Linked by Slavery
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Our speaker tells the story of how he discovered he is descended from slave owners, and then sought out the descendants of his ancestors' enclave. The threads of the story run through the Civil War, Reconstruction, Jim Crow, the Great Migration, the struggle for civil rights, and the crippling legacy of slavery that still plagues the nation today. In telling it, he hopes to advance an essential, if painful, national conversation about race.
Bill Sizemore
Bill Sizemore spent 43 years in his journalism career, most of that time at the Virginian-Pilot, where he was a Pulitzer Prize finalist in 2007. He wrote about topics as varied as state government and politics, televangelist Pat Robertson, the private military company Blackwater, and Virginia's prison-building boom. He is the author of Uncle George and Me and Two Southern Families Confront a Shared Legacy of Slavery.