Going to Meet the Man: Stories Civil Rights by Lisa Fithian

by Lisa Fithian

which accelerated America's transformation into a white republic

she received the prestigious award Katapultpriset

rampant racism and a blind eye turned towards the injustices perpetrated on the powerless

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Going to Meet the Man: Stories Civil Rights by Lisa Fithianby James Baldwin Vintage 4 25 1995, paperback SKU: 9780679761792 "There's no way not to suffer. But you try all kinds of ways to keep from drowning in it." The men and women in these eight short fictions grasp this truth on an elemental level, and their stories, as told by James Baldwin, detail the ingenious and often desperate ways in which they try to keep their head above water. It may be the heroin that a down and out jazz pianist uses to face the