Sublime

East Tremont was a sense of continuity, of warmth, of the security that comes—and only comes—with a sense of belonging.

These are the

It was less than a month after the legislative hearings on the Longoria affair, in fact, that Lyndon Johnson took the field not with the friends of social justice but with its foes by delivering, as part of the southern battle against President Truman’s civil rights legislation, his “We of the South” maiden speech—the speech that Richard Russell ca

She thought also of returning to some of her people in Virginia, but to come home dragging three young ones would have to be a step one rung before death for Eva.

“Their cause must be our cause, too,” Lyndon Johnson said. “Because it is not just Negroes, but really it is all of us, who must overcome the crippling legacy of bigotry and injustice.”

Most people said he was half white, but Eva said he was all white. That she knew blood when she saw it, and he didn’t have none.