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Anna-Lisa Cox

Anna-Lisa Cox is the author of A Stronger Kinship: One Town’s Extraordinary Story of Hope and Faith, and an award-winning historian. Currently a fellow at Harvard University’s Hutchins Center for African and African American Research, she also recently helped create two historical exhibits based on her original research at the Smithsonian’s National Museum of African American History and Culture, including one on black pioneers.
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Great piece by Anna-Lisa Cox in Laphams Quarterly

This book is a reminder not only of the injustice that is buried in America’s past but also of the courage and hope that these African Americans had, with their deep roots in this region and their refusal to leave their land despite the legal and actual violence rising against them.
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