Reviewed by Bev Scott The Black Rose is based on the truly inspirational story of Sarah Breedlove Walker, Madam C. J. Walker. She was born in 1867 on a plantation to slave parents who died from yellow fever, “Yellow Jack,” when she was about eight years old. From abject poverty, unable to read but with drive […]
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The Lone Ranger was Black*
Was the Lone Ranger modeled after Bass Reeves, the first black U.S. deputy marshal who worked thirty-two years in the Arkansas and Oklahoma territories in the late 1800’s? He may have been. History Is Biased “The Lone Ranger was Black: Reintegrating Minority Viewpoints into Historical Fiction.” This title intrigued me. I found this session at the Historical […]
