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A Memoir of Four Generations of One Extraordinary African-American Family
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July 2008
On Sale: July 7, 2008
288 pages
ISBN: 1586484222
EAN: 9781586484224
Hardcover
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Non-Fiction
During Reconstruction, Herschel V. Cashin was a radical
republican legislator who championed black political
enfranchisement throughout the South. His grandson, Dr.
John L. Cashin, Jr., inherited that passion for social
justice and formed an independent Democratic party to
counter George Wallace's Dixiecrats, electing more blacks
to office than in any Southern state. His "uppity" ways
attracted many enemies. Twice the private plane Cashin
owned and piloted was sabotaged. His dental office and
boyhood home were taken by eminent domain. The IRS pursued
him, as did the FBI. Ultimately his passions would lead to
ruin and leave his daughter, Sheryll, wondering why he
would risk so much.
In following generations of Cashins through the eras of
slavery, Reconstruction, Jim Crow, civil rights, and post-
civil rights political struggles, Sheryll Cashin conveys
how she came to embrace being an agitator's daughter with
humor, honesty, and love.
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