In “The Black Civil War Soldier: A Visual History of Conflict and Citizenship,” Deborah Willis discusses the yearning to fight, to have full citizenship, and far more.
“The Black Civil War Soldier: A Visual History of Conflict and Citizenship,” by Deborah Willis, delivers much more than the formal, carefully posed photographs of men in uniforms and their heartfelt letters home and to the world.
Instead, he embraced it. I say absolutely you are right. This is culture canceling, said Johnson, a Houston Democrat in his third term in the Texas House. There was a culture of slavery in this country. And we as a people came together and canceled that horrible culture.
Jarvis legislation to end the Confederate holiday is among a handful of bills filed in the 2021 legislative session aimed at eliminating what supporters see as misguided glorification of the 19th century leaders who led rebellion against the United States in the effort to allow slavery to flourish in Texas and across the South.