318: Alonzo Felder — Discovering A. S. J. Allen
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You Can't Honor What You Don't Know
"I knew so very little about who made me and where I came from," says author Albert Sidney James Allen. "It sort of hit a zero state for me when my mom passed away" His great-grandfather, A.S.J. Allen, was killed by a neighbor over a border dispute in the Jim Crow South. In 1904, if you killed a black guy in your white, it's akin to running over the squirrel right now,. It's justifiable homicide.
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