Tuesday, August 18, 2020

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… Genius and grace: Flannery O’Connor’s Jesuit friend | Georgia Bulletin - Georgia Bulletin. (Hat tip, Tim Davis.)



Like Flannery, he had been raised in the Deep South with racist attitudes that he later overcame. She tackled the ugly underbelly of racism through her stories and said, after a shocking experience on a bus, where the driver insulted the black passengers: “Right then and there, I became an integrationist.” He was active in the civil rights movement and proud of establishing the first integrated parish in Fort Valley. 

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