Those Who Saw the Sun: African American Oral Histories from the Jim Crow South by Jaha Nailah Avery

Those Who Saw the Sun: African American Oral Histories from the Jim Crow South

Jaha Nailah Avery

320 pages first pub 2023 (editions)

nonfiction history challenging informative reflective medium-paced
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The past is not past. We may think something ancient history, or something that doesn’t affect our present day, but we would be wrong. Those Who Saw the Sun is a collection of oral histories told by Black people who grew up in the South during the...

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informative 100%
reflective 78%
emotional 50%
inspiring 42%
challenging 35%
hopeful 28%
sad 21%
dark 7%
funny 7%
lighthearted 7%

Pace

medium 57%
slow 28%
fast 14%

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