Highlighted text in book: In 1923, the Ku Klux Klan in Kissimmee, Florida, had mobilized to lunch Brown’s great-grandfather, Oscar Mack. The KKK targeted Mack because he had accepted a well-playing US Postal Service job hitherto reserved for whites. After a gun battle in which he killed two of his attackers, Oscar Mack fled on foot to the North. For much of the rest of his life, Mack lived under an assumed name, on the run from white terrorists. Mack’s great-grandson vowed to turn a family tragedy into a story of redemption and reconciliation”
I was not expecting to read about my hometown in the book, but here we are!
An African American and Latinx History of the United States by Paul Ortiz
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