Tag: Social Justice

We’re Still On The March: A look back to Wrightsville, Georgia 1980

Wrightsville is an anachronism of the most disturbing kind. All the tired marches and all the old songs serve up reminders of hopes still unfulfilled, of how far we have not come - Ron Taylor As we rise up yet again against the racism, the injustice and the police misconduct that continues to stifle this country let's revisit the goings on in a small Georgia town in 1980. On a May night shots rang out in the black part of town. A young black girl was wounded and a white policeman was grazed. By then the citizens of Wrightsville had already begun to push back against...

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