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Nov 15, 2012

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Social Concerns
Richard F. Hicks. Photo courtesy of the author.

Caught in a twilight zone of change
Even after the passage of civil rights laws, a white teen found change slow to come in the rural South of the 1970s.
Social Concerns
The Rev. Constance Hastings. Photo courtesy of the Rev. Constance Hastings.

When one's enemy becomes one's neighbor
A traumatic childhood memory, repressed for 40 years, came back to force United Methodist deacon Constance Hastings to confront racism in her upbringing.
Social Concerns
Barbara Talley. Photo courtesy of Hope United Methodist Church.

‘You’ll ruin the neighborhood’
An African American woman recalls instances of racism while she and her husband were searching for housing in the 1950s and 1960s.