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Tentatively scheduled for 9:05 am Author Sharon Tubbs will discuss.
They Got Daddy !
Lots of writers have tackled America's historic abuses of Black people and Black families. But few handle the subject as deftly as Sharon Tubbs, whose They Got Daddy connects the trauma which reverberated through her own family history when her grandfather was abused by powerful white people, to the larger history of Black America's attempts to survive similar oppression. Her story is poignant and carefully told, filled with telling details and powerful writing, making the case that such injustices never stay in the past, but are passed through a family's DNA in a way that makes the trauma a living thing to be coped with every day. They Got Daddy provides important lessons on how to understand — and hopefully come to terms with — a legacy of oppression which remains a potent force in America to this day. --
Eric Deggans, National Public Radio, TV Critic and Media Analyst
January 15, 1959 was a day that changed the Page family forever. White supremacists kidnapped and severely beat rural Alabama preacher Israel Page, leaving him for dead. Why? Because Page, who was Black, had sued a White sheriff's deputy for causing devastating injuries in a car crash. The upcoming civil trial would surely result in the deputy paying a large sum for damages, so the kidnappers wanted to stop Page’s testimony. Justice was hard to come by in the 1950s Jim Crow South. In the end, Page was never compensated. The perpetrators who kidnapped him were never identified, so they faced no consequences. The tragic event left an indelible mark on Page's children and their future—a mark that some carried with them as they moved to the Midwest, had children of their own, and seldom spoke about the debacle. Decades later, the events of that day fueled journalist Sharon Tubbs's epic quest to learn who had “gotten” her mother’s daddy and why.
Part gripping family memoir, part journalistic crusade for the truth during the racially charged divisions in America, They Got Daddy follows Tubbs on her moving journey from Fort Wayne, Indiana, to the back roads and rural churches of Alabama. A powerful revelation of the sustaining and redemptive power of faith and unflinching testimony to the deeply embedded effects of racism across the generations.
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