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Susan Follett grew up in the epicenter of the civil rights movement: Mississippi in the sixties. Her career in corporate technology management took her to the Twin Cities of Minnesota, the Bay Area of California, and Portland, Oregon. But a documentary she saw as a young adult, about the March from Selma to Montgomery, haunted her. Though the march occurred scarcely 100 miles from where she grew up, it was unfamiliar history, and she wanted to know why. She returned to Mississippi time and again for the stories, turning an adult eye on her childhood under Jim Crow, wondering what might be different had she been older or more aware when civil rights workers Chaney, Goodman, and Schwerner were murdered near her hometown in the summer of 1964. ...more

Average rating: 4.02 · 53 ratings · 12 reviews · 1 distinct work
The Fog Machine

4.02 avg rating — 53 ratings — published 2014 — 6 editions
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Anatole France
“He flattered himself on being a man without any prejudices; and his pretension itself is a very great prejudice.”
Anatole France

Anaïs Nin
“Each friend represents a world in us, a world possibly not born until they arrive, and it is only by this meeting that a new world is born.”
Anais Nin, The Diary of Anaïs Nin, Vol. 1: 1931-1934

“Until the killing of black men, black mothers' sons, becomes as important to the rest of the country as the killing of a white mother's son, we who believe in freedom cannot rest until this happens.”
Ella Baker

Nelson Mandela
“For to be free is not merely to cast off one's chains, but to live in a way that respects and enhances the freedom of others.”
Nelson Mandela

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