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Shots Fired At Inter-Racial Party in Small-town NC, 1969 Echo Through The Years
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Shots Fired At Inter-Racial Party in Small-town NC, 1969 Echo Through The Years

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As part of my ongoing series on how baby boomers are processing or reconciling their formative experiences on race, I stumbled upon Holydiscomfort.com, by Karen Bryant Shipp, “love letters to the church” (on) religion, social justice, anti-racism.

In the summer of 1969 near Wake Forest, NC, shots were fired into her home, the Baptist Church manse, becau…

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