Blood & bone : truth and reconciliation in a southern town / Jack Shuler.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Shuler, Jack.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Riots--South Carolina--Orangeburg.

Riots.

African Americans--Civil rights--South Carolina.

African Americans.

African Americans--Civil rights.

Orangeburg (S.C.)--Race relations.

Orangeburg (S.C.).

Orangeburg (S.C.)--History.

South Carolina.

South Carolina--Orangeburg.

Physical Description:

xv, 240 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

Other Title:

Blood and bone

Place of Publication:

Columbia : University of South Carolina Press, [2012]

Summary:

Shuler (English, Denison U.) is a native of Orangeburg, South Carolina. In 1968, two years before the Kent State massacre, police officers shot and killed civil rights demonstrators at the local South Carolina State College. The officers were exonerated while the community was torn. Schuler grew up with the memory of the event and in this book explores the process of reconciliation and remembering that has gone on in the town since then. That process takes him further back than the incident, but the book still revolves around it, weaving a complex network of stories that pass through that fateful day in February 1968. It's full of history, but not an authoritative nor investigative account. Instead, Schuler offers a study on the effects in the community that lives with that history. In the back is a useful glossary of "who's who." Annotation ©2012 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

Contents:

Part 1

1 The Archive and the Archivist 13

2 The Bystander 29

3 Garden City and Palmetto State 39

4 Spitting at Jim Crow 55

5 Eight Seconds of Holy Hell 71

6 The State's Men 91

7 The Struggle 113

Part 2

8 "That thing hurt me" 129

9 "A different light than bitterness" 141

10 Editing the Story 163

11 Black, White, and Green 177

12 New Narratives 191.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9781611170481

1611170486

OCLC:

733227973