In his remarks at the unveiling, Read noted how the postcard image of that night had frozen that awful racial violence in time, and he expressed his hopes that the day’s event would provide an alternative image of accountability and reconciliation: “I stand here today as a representative of [my great-grandfather’s] legacy, and I willingly place that responsibility on my shoulders.”38 Read continued, “As a family, we have used the discovery of this as a tool for continued discovery of ourselves. This means our past, present, and future selves, and a lesson that true shame is not in the
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