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A Journey into Mississippi's Dark Past
Basic Books
September 2003
On Sale: August 25, 2003
266 pages
ISBN: 0738205702
EAN: 9780738205700
Kindle: B001NEIOG4
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Non-Fiction Memoir
Like the renowned classics Praying for Sheetrock and
North Toward Home, Ever Is a Long Time
captures the spirit and feel of a small Southern town
divided by racism and violence in the midst of the Civil
Rights era. Part personal journey, part social and political
history, this extraordinary book reveals the burden of
Southern history and how that burden is carried even today
in the hearts and minds of those who lived through the worst
of it. Author Ralph Eubanks, whose father was a black county agent
and whose mother was a schoolteacher, grew up on an
eighty-acre farm on the outskirts of Mount Olive,
Mississippi, a town of great pastoral beauty but also a
place where the racial dividing lines were clear and where
violence was always lingering in the background. Ever Is a Long Time tells his story against the
backdrop of an era when churches were burned, Medgar Evers
and Martin Luther King were murdered, schools were
integrated forcibly, and the state of Mississippi created an
agency to spy on its citizens in an effort to maintain white
supremacy. Through Eubanks's evocative prose, we see and
feel a side of Mississippi that has seldom been seen before.
He reveals the complexities of the racial dividing lines at
the time and the price many paid for what we now take for
granted. With colorful stories that bring that time to life as well
as interviews with those who were involved in the spying
activities of the State Sovereignty Commission, Ever Is a
Long Time is a poignant picture of one man coming to
terms with his southern legacy.
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