40 Acres & a Fool

40 Acres & a Fool


Ep. 7 | Past Tense, Current Events: Ralph Northam, Blackface, and the De-Segregated Heart

February 03, 2019

As controversy over Virginia Governor Ralph Northam's history with blackface rages, Cam's digging into the story of segregation and civil rights in Virginia with the help of Sarah Patton Boyle's "The De-Segregated Heart", her 1962 autobiography which Martin Luther King, Jr.  called "one of the most eloquent and captivating documents that has emerged from the Southern situation", and yet it is largely (and sadly) forgotten today.