From our travel editor, Alveena Holcomb:
A group of members of the Dickinson Organization of Poetry Enthusiasts traveled to Alabama recently to visit civil rights sites in Montgomery, Selma, and Birmingham. A travelogue with information (and lots of pictures) is HERE. We also have a companion piece called “ALABANDONED: Alabama – State of Disrepair” about many of the abandoned and vacant buildings we came across -- HERE.
In viewing many of the sites and investigating the history of the state, it is clear that a significant portion of the population in Alabama (and, by extension, the South…and the county?) struggles with deep rooted racist beliefs. We discuss in our travelogue how slavery in the south evolved from a “necessary evil” to an accepted aspect of the region’s culture. As a result, the legacy passed on from one generation to the next profoundly established prejudicial attitudes within their system of values.
This called to mind Emmett Lee Dickinson’s poem “The incidents of hate,” (below on the left). Dickinson’s poem inspired third cousin Emily to pen her poem “The incidents” of love” (below on the right).
A group of members of the Dickinson Organization of Poetry Enthusiasts traveled to Alabama recently to visit civil rights sites in Montgomery, Selma, and Birmingham. A travelogue with information (and lots of pictures) is HERE. We also have a companion piece called “ALABANDONED: Alabama – State of Disrepair” about many of the abandoned and vacant buildings we came across -- HERE.
In viewing many of the sites and investigating the history of the state, it is clear that a significant portion of the population in Alabama (and, by extension, the South…and the county?) struggles with deep rooted racist beliefs. We discuss in our travelogue how slavery in the south evolved from a “necessary evil” to an accepted aspect of the region’s culture. As a result, the legacy passed on from one generation to the next profoundly established prejudicial attitudes within their system of values.
This called to mind Emmett Lee Dickinson’s poem “The incidents of hate,” (below on the left). Dickinson’s poem inspired third cousin Emily to pen her poem “The incidents” of love” (below on the right).
| By Emmett Lee Dickinson: The incidents of hate Were born in these Events – Investments past Progenitors Passed on to their Descents – | By Emily Dickinson: The incidents of love Are more than its Events – Investment’s best Expositor Is the minute Per Cents – |
Below: The Legacy of Slavery and the Ku Klux Klan: The torch is passed from generation to generation.
Far Left: Edmund Pettus, officer in the Confederate States Army and Grand Dragon of the KKK. Left: Selma, Alabama, Sheriff Jim Clark. Right: Jefferson Beauregard Sessions III, the current Confederate General of the United States. Far Right: White supremacists and Trump supporters – the legacy of the Trump campaign and administration (some of whom – according to Trump – are very fine people).
Far Left: Edmund Pettus, officer in the Confederate States Army and Grand Dragon of the KKK. Left: Selma, Alabama, Sheriff Jim Clark. Right: Jefferson Beauregard Sessions III, the current Confederate General of the United States. Far Right: White supremacists and Trump supporters – the legacy of the Trump campaign and administration (some of whom – according to Trump – are very fine people).
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