[AGL] Jackson article

[Fontaine Maverick]

After the funeral, I went by Oats and picked that one up. I think Doug Brown 
told me that it was the only one available in any quantity. It certainly is 
written from the viewpoint of Southern Racists, but I did not perceive it as 
sympathetic.
I got hold of an excerpt of my great great grandmothers journal a couple of 
years ago talking about owning slaves; her viewpoint was of the "we were 
good to our nigras" persuasion. Told some anecdotes that made the hair on 
the back of my neck stand up; it creeped me out, but I was glad to be able 
to see for myself  what the mindset of a southern racist was like.

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Michael Eisenstadt" <michaele at ando.pair.com>
To: "survivors' reminiscences about Austin Ghetto Daze in the 60s" 
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Sent: Monday, December 11, 2006 7:45 AM
Subject: Re: [AGL] Jackson article



> Jon and Kathy,

>

> Thanks for forwarding the article on Jaxon. I for 1 am going to make a 

> more

> serious effort to track down Jaxon's various books, especially the 1 about

> post-Civil War Reconstruction so i can see what the fuss was about. The

> notion of writing from the viewpoint and in sympathy with racist 

> southerners

> is an odd 1; short of actually reading the book it seems impossible to

> imagine it.

>

> Neither the UT library nor the Austin public library have any of these 

> books

> (i looked for them after the memorial last summer) but they should be

> available by Interlibrary Loan.

>

> Mike

>

>